was appointed university professor for general medicine and evidence-based health care research by the rector of the Medical University of Graz with effect from January 1, 2015 and was entrusted with the management of the newly founded Institute for General Medicine and Evidence-Based Health Care Research. She received her doctorate from the Karl Franzens University of Graz in 1993 and has been a specialist in internal medicine since 2000. In 1998 she was a research assistant at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Leicester, UK. The habilitation in internal medicine took place in 2004; Since 2005 she and PD Dr. Karl Horvath is the overall manager and scientific director of the “EBM Review Center” research unit at the Medical University of Graz. Since 2009 she has been Professor of Chronic Illness and Health Services Research and Deputy Director and Head of the Chronic Illness and Health Services Research Department at the Institute for General Medicine at the JW Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and has continued this work as a part-time professor since May 1, 2015.