Simon Schäfer appointed

Prof. Dr. Simon T. Schäfer is the new Professor of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy at the Department of Human Medicine, and was appointed director of the department of the same name at the Klinikum Oldenburg.

Schäfer studied human medicine in Regensburg and at the Technical University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 2003. He then worked at the university hospitals in Erlangen and Essen and at the same time completed a part-time Master's degree programme in Health Business Administration.

He earned his habilitation at Universitätsklinikum Essen and then returned to Munich the following year to work at the department of Anaesthesiology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München (LMU), where he was appointed leading anesthesiologist of the pediatric liver transplant programm. Subsequently, he became vice chair of the department of anesthesiology at LMU Munich and furthermore associate professor at LMU in 2020.

Schäfer conducts research in the field of geriatric anaesthesia, which focuses on considerations when using anaesthesia in older persons. He also studies new methods for analysing the coagulation properties of blood and investigates hypoxia tolerance (mechanisms for compensating for oxygen deficiency in organs or tissue).