Manuela Anacker – social union VdK

Manuela Anacker is a qualified social scientist and speaker for social politics of the social union VdK NRW since 2008. Her activitay emphases are age, care and health. On top of that she participates in different countrywide panels, e.g. as speaker of PatientInnen-Netzwerk NRW, the representatives convention of Deutsche Rentenversicherung Westfalen and the recently founded mehr…

Rainer Beckers, M.P.H. M.A. – eHealth expert

eHealth expert Rainer Beckers is a health scientist (M.P.H.) and philosopher (M.A.) with an activity emphasis on health economics and computer simulation as a scientific method (University of Paderborn). Since 1989 he worked in healthcare, transfering to ZTG GmbH (centre for telematics und telehealth) in 2000, where he became general manager in 2009. Mr Beckers, mehr…

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Dr. phil. Dominik Groß ‒ Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at RWTH Aachen

Dominik Groß is professor for health ethics and history of medicine. Since 2005 he is managing director of the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at RWTH Aachen and chairholder of the eponymous professorship. Since 2008 he leads the committee for ethics at the University Hospital Aachen, moreover the task force ethics of mehr…

Rudolf Henke, Member of the Bundestag ‒ German Medical Association, Marburger Bund, German Bundestag

Mr Rudolf Henke is an internist and since September 1988 assistant medical director in the Clinic for Onco-hematology at St.-Antonius-Hospital Eschweiler. He started engaging for the Ärztekammer Nordrhein as board member in 1988 and is its president since 2011. Since 1995 he is board member of the Bundesärztekammer and was elected first president of the mehr…

Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Eva-Maria Jakobs ‒ RWTH Aachen, Human-Computer Interaction Center at RWTH Aachen

Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Eva-Maria Jakobs is a linguist and communicologist. She worked and did research at different universities domestic and abroad, before in 1999 she was appointed to the Institute for Linguistics and Communicology at RWTH Aachen University, where she coordinates the interdisciplinary studies communication in technology. Her activity emphases are professional communication in economy mehr…

Astrid Natus-Can ‒ Helene-Weber Haus, Multigenerational House StädteRegion Aachen

Astrid Natus-Can is a political scientist and general manager of Helene-Weber-Haus Aachen. Helene-Weber-Haus is a catholic panel for adult and family education in Aachen city and surrounding. They own the multigenerational house in the StädteRegion Aachen which has a emphasis on dementia and work with the elderly. Politically Mrs Natus-Can engages voluntarily in the Landschaftsversammlung mehr…

Dr. Alexander Peine ‒ International Society for Gerontology

Alexander Peine is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STI-Studies) at the University of Utrecht. Moreover he serves as board member of the International Society for Gerontology (ISG) and works in the social advisory board of the joint-programming initiative “More Years, Better Lives” of the EU (JPI-MYBL). Mr Peine does research on innovation mehr…

Reverend Dirk Puder ‒ Protestant Congregation of Aachen

Reverend Dirk Puder studied protestant theology in Bonn, Heidelberg and Durham/NC, USA. Since more than twenty years he is protestant hospital chaplain in the university hospital of RWTH Aachen. Additional training in analytic psychology (CGJung) and public relations, marketing and communication at the Evangelisches Gemeinschaftswerk für Publizistik (GEP). “I would like to understand, how people mehr…

Dr. Georg Souvignier ‒ Diocese Aachen, Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine at RWTH Aachen

Mr Souvignier studied physics at RWTH Aachen from 1983 until 1988. In 1991 he took his doctoral degree in physics (biophysics) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Max-Planck-Institut für Ernährungsphysiologie in Dortmund. Since 1993 Mr Souvignier is lecturer at the episcopal academy of the diocese Aachen. From 1997 to 2001 he also was speaker for medical ethics mehr…

Prof. Dr. phil. Martina Ziefle ‒ Institute for Linguistics and Communication Science, Human-Computer Interaction Center at RWTH Aachen

Martina Ziefle originally is a psychologist and manages the Professorship for Communication Science at the Institute for Linguistics and Communication Science. She is founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Center at RWTH Aachen since 2011. The professorship covers an interdisciplinary group of scientists doing research on the systematic integration of „human factors“ in technical contexts mehr…