Professor Thomas Werfel, MD

Director of the Department of Dermatology and Allergy

 

Contact

Assistent of the director:
Britta Köpping
E-mail
Phone: 0511 532 7654
Fax: 0511 532 18854


Scientific Office:
Eva Satzke
E-mail
Phone: 0511 532 5085
Fax: 0511 532 8112
 

Qualifications

  • Specialist in dermatology and venereology
  • Additional qualification in allergology
  • Specialist in laboratory medicine
  • Specialist immunologist (certified by the German Society for Immunology)

 

Clinical focus

  • Innovative therapies for chronic inflammatory and allergic skin diseases, immunodermatology

 

Scientific focus

  • Immunology and innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in chronic inflammatory and allergic skin diseases

 

Functions in scientific societies and at the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Current functions

  • Member of the board of the German Dermatological Society (DDG)
  • Executive board member of the German Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (DGAKI, president from 2016- 2019)
  • Chief Editor Allergology (association organ of the DGAKI) and Allergology select
  • Coordinator of the National AWMF Guideline Atopic Dermtitis (Neurodermatitis), participation in other AWMF and European guidelines.
  • Member of the board of the excellence cluster RESIST (research on susceptibility to infections) of the MHH

 

Former functions

  • Review board member of the German Research Foundation (Medicine - Inflammation Research 2012-2020)
  • Board member of the European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR) and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)
  • Section Editor, temporarily Deputy Chief Editor J Invest Dermatol
  • Editorial Boards Curr Opion Allergy Clin Immunol, JDDG, Dermatologist, Allergo J

 

Publications

  • Over 500 PUBMED listed authorships: Link to Pubmed
  • Highly cited Researcher (Clarivate Web of Science) 2021, 2022 and 2023