Prof. Ernstmann is moving from Bonn to Cologne
16.11.2022 13:02
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Nicole Ernstmann accepted the offer to the W3 professorship for health services research at the University of Cologne on November 1, 2022. The professorship is located at the Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science (IMVR).
“I am very pleased to be able to strengthen health services research in Cologne and provide new impetus,” says Prof. Ernstmann. At the Life Science Campus Cologne she will continue to pursue ongoing research collaborations and initiate new projects. Dean Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gereon R. Fink adds: “Prof. Through her respected research activities, Ernstmann will make a significant contribution to further expanding the socially relevant research area of health and society in Cologne." Her research focuses on patient- and family-centered health care research in oncology, the development and evaluation of new care models, communication between patients and carers, and the Health literacy. In her research projects, she develops, evaluates and implements, among other things, complex interventions to improve the quality of psychosocial care for cancer patients and their relatives. Here she can build on the successful collaboration with the Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) in Cologne. Together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Holger Pfaff, director of the IMVR, plans to further expand the center for health services research.
Prof. Ernstmann identified further interfaces to the research programs of the Institute for Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology (IGKE) and the Center for Health Services Research Cologne (ZVFK). In Cologne she also wants to strengthen cooperation with the Cologne Research and Development Network (CoRe-Net) and the Center for Ethics, Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Health (CERES).
Prof. Dr. Nicole Ernstmann has many years of teaching experience in the areas of health services research, medical sociology and rehabilitation sciences. In particular, she uses activating, problem-oriented teaching methods based on current research results. She is also a lecturer at the Spring School of the German Network for Healthcare Research (DNVF). and the DFG Junior Academy for Health Services Research.
She is a qualified psychologist and registered nurse. After completing her doctorate in 2007, she completed her habilitation in health services research and medical sociology at the University of Cologne in 2012 (2013 faculty award for the best habilitation). Previous stays abroad took you to the American Psychosocial Oncology Society in Irvine, USA in 2008 and to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA in 2009.
After five years of research as a junior professor for medical-sociological health services research at the University of Cologne, where she ultimately worked as deputy director of the IMVR, Prof. Ernstmann accepted a W2 professorship at the University of Bonn in 2016. There she previously worked as head of the research center for health communication and health services research at the clinic and polyclinic for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. The healthcare researcher continually receives third-party funding - including from the German Research Foundation, the Federal Ministry of Health and the German Cancer Aid – acquired and successfully published their research results nationally and internationally.