WG 6: Health Care, Medical Technology, Care

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med. Karsten Hiltawsky is Head of Corporate Technology and Innovation at Dräger and Professor of Medical Technology at the University of Lübeck. Previously, he worked for Siemens Healthcare and General Electric in various positions and was a physician in internal medicine. Karsten Hiltawsky received his doctorate in medicine and electrical engineering from the Ruhr University in Bochum and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Through a DAAD scholarship, he completed a year of study at Purdue University (USA).

Professor Klemens Budde is Deputy Medical Director of the Medical Department, Division of Nephrology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, where he has held the endowed professorship for pharmacodynamics of immunosuppression after kidney transplantation since 2006. In 2004 Professor Budde received the Hans-U.-Zollinger Research Prize of the German Association for Nephrology for outstanding achievement in his field. He is a member of numerous national and international medical associations. He has headed “Medical Allround-Care Service Solutions” (MACSS) since 2016, a project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi) in which partners from science and industry are developing a patient-oriented smart health service platform.