Professor, Head Of the center for regulation of metabolism and hormonal imbalance Rudolf Prager
Current research: hemostatic disorders, endothelial dysfunction in patients with impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance, drug treatment of type 2 diabetes, Adipositas-Forschung obesity research, treatment with insulin pump and sensory technology, late complications in diabetes mellitus, diabetes prevention, diabetic nephropathy, kidney and pancreatic transplantation. Author of 360 works. Weight loss specialist.
Membership in various societies: Vienna society of Physicians, Austrian society for Internal Medicine (ÖGIM), Austrian Diabetes Society (ÖDG), Austrian society of Nephrology (ÖGN), German Diabetes Society (DDG), European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), American Diabetes Association (ADA), European insulin resistance Group (EGIR).
Awards and grants: Max-Kade Scholarship, Hoechst Prize, Ferdinand Bertram Prize of the German Diabetes Society, Billroth Prize, Hoechst Prize.
The profile of the disease
Education and work experience
1971-1976-Studied At the medical University of Vienna.
1977-1978-Assistant at the Institute of pharmacology at the University of Vienna
1978-1984 - medical specialization in II. University clinic in the departments of Hematology, Oncology, endocrinology and diabetology, as well as in other Universities. clinics for cardiology, pulmonology and sports medicine, Nephrology and hemodialysis, intensive care and General therapy
1984-Specialist in internal medicine.
1984-1985-Research activity at the medical College at the University of California, San Diego in the framework of the Max Kade scholarship program.
1986-1987-Chief physician of the General therapeutic outpatient clinic of the II Univer. Clinics.
1988-Opening of a private practice.
1988-1991-Chief physician of endocrinology Department II. University. Clinics.
1989-1994-consulting physician at I. University. clinics of eye diseases.
1994-1995-Chief physician of the 3rd Department of the Leinz hospital, obtaining additional specialization in Nephrology. Management of the hemodialysis Department, as well as performing the duties of the chief physician of the intensive care unit with practical activities (intubation, connection to artificial respiration, hemofiltration, installation of a vascular catheter, etc.).
1995-2000-Medical activity in the Department of endocrinology and metabolism of the III Univer. clinics of internal diseases in various positions: the chief doctor of the hospital, the chief doctor of the diabetic outpatient clinic, the chief doctor of the hypertensive outpatient clinic.
Since 2000, Head of the 3rd Department of metabolic diseases and Nephrology at the Hitzing city hospital.
