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Department of Internal Medicine V - Pulmonology

Professor Dr. med. Jürgen Behr	Stuff:
	Medical Service (financed by third-party funds):	18 (2)
	Medical-Technical Service (financed by third-party funds):	21 (5)

	Number of inpatient cases:	2.014

Services of the Department of Internal Medicine V (Pulmonology):

Pneumology
Interstital lung diseases
Pulmonary hypertension
Lung transplantation
Thoracic oncology
Cystic fibrosis
COPD
Asthma and allergology
Pulmonary infections incl. tuberculosis

Training and Degrees

1979-1985	Studies of medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, supported by federal Bavarian scholarship program
1987	Doctoral Degree, LMU Munich; Topic: Na+-Transport systems of human erythrocytes in different forms of hypertension: The role of plasma potassium and plasma lipids
1996	Habilitation in internal medicine, LMU Munich; Topic: Study on pathophysiology and medical impact of intrapulmonal oxidant/antioxidant balance in chronic inflammatory lung diseases
2001-2007	Attending Physician, Internal Emergency Room and Interdisciplinary Intensive Care Emergency Ward, Klinikum Großhadern, University hospital, LMU Munich
2002	Adjunct Professor, LMU Munich
2010-2013	Director, Department of Pulmology, Allergology, Sleep- and Ventilation- Medicine, University Hospital Bochum
since 2013	Director, Department of Internal Medicine V (Pulmology), University Hospital of the LMU Munich. First Chair of Pulmology in Bavaria

Memberships, Prizes and Honors

1979-1985	Federal Bavarian scholarship
2008	Best Abstract Award / Lung Transplantation Group, European Respiratory Society
2014	Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the European Respiratory Society in Munich
2016	President of the 4th Congress for Rare Lung Diseases, Berlin; Scientific working group for therapy of lung diseases (WATL)
	Member of the Professional Association of German Internists
	Member of the Professional Association of Bavarian Pulmologists
	Member of the German Medical Association of Pulmology and Ventilation Support (DGP)
	Member of the German Cardiac Society (DGK)
	Member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
	Member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS)
	Member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
	Member of the working group pulmonary hypertension (DGK and DGP)
	Commissioner of DGP (Main focus: Guidelines)
	Spokesman, Section 7 on Clinical Pulmology, DGP
	Member of the board of patient advocacy group on pulmonary fibrosis
	Zweiter Vorstand der Patientenselbsthilfegruppe Lungenfibrose e.V.
	Member of the scientific committee, patient advocacy groups on pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis

Publications

Extract of publications of Professor Dr. J. Behr

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Contact

Natalie Kusmina

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Munir Berhanu

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