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prof. dr. J.K.G. (Götz) Wietasch

Professor in Anesthesiology, Innovation in Education
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Curiculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Johann Klaus Götz Wietasch
Department of Anaesthesiology
University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG),
University Groningen, The Netherlands
Tel: +31 (50) 361 1059
j.k.g.wietasch@umcg.nl

 Actual position:

  1. Professor of Anesthesiologie, Innovation in Postgraduate Medical Education
  2. Academic Program Director, Department of Anaesthesiology, UMCG
  3. Vice director of Residency Program, Department of Anaesthesiology, UMCG
  4. Clinical Teacher at Medical School, University of Groningen (UG)
  5. Member Junior Scientific Masterclass Bachelor ‘Honours’ Programma, (UG)

 Professional History (graduation, employment,

Born at 23 December 1967 in Berlin, Germany

1989 - 1996       Medical School at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

1993 - 1995       Research fellow (DFG grant SFB330): Development of diagnostic methods and clinical investigation on lung injury after extracorporeal circulation (leader: Prof. Dr. A. Hoeft and PD Dr. B. Schorn).

1996                  Ph.D. thesis at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany (Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Prof. J. Bürsch) on “Quantification of intra cardiac left-to-right shunting with the double indicator dilution technique using system analytic algorithms” (Summa Cum Laude, PhD thesis award)

1996 - 2002       Residency in Anaesthesiology at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Bonn, Germany (Chair: Prof. Dr. A. Hoeft).

1999 - 2001       Fellowship Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Bonn, Germany (Chair: Prof. Dr. A. Hoeft).

2001 - 2002       Fellowship Intensive Care Medicine at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Bonn, Germany (Chair: Prof. Dr. A. Hoeft).

2002 – 2004      Attended Anaesthesiologist at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Medical Centre Bonn, Germany.
Research-coordinator of the clinical research group

Since 2004        Staff member at the Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands

Since 2005        Clinical Teacher at the University Medical School Groningen

2006 – 2008      Vice-Director of Residency Program

2006 – 2020      Member Dedicated Team Liver Transplantation

2007 – 2020      Member of the executive board of the Department

2007 – 2020      Member of the national educational board of the Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology.

Since 2008        Academic Program Director

2008 – 2020      Director of Residency Program

2010                  Associate Professor

2010 – 2015      Chairman Educational Committee Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology

2012 – 2019      Member Registration Council Medical Specialist (RGS)

2012 – 2015      Chairman RGS commission on training accreditation program

2017                  Full Professor

Since 2019        Member Lifelong Learning, Education and Assessment Research Network (LEARN); Research Institute Science in Health Ageing and Healthcare (SHARE), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Since 2020        Chairman Accreditation Committee for Nurse Anaesthetists, Sedation Practitioners, PACU Nurses, College Care Traingen, The Netherlands

Since 2020        Member Curriculum Advisory Board MSc Physician Assistant, Hanze University of applied Science, Groningen

Since 2021        Vice Director of Residency Program

 Specialty certification:

  • D. Thesis (summa cum laude): 2 July 1997, University of Göttingen, Germany.
  • Medical doctor: 1 November 1997, University of Göttingen, Germany.
  • Certificate for Good Clinical Practice, 11 February 1998, Braun-Melsungen, Germany.
  • Certificate for Emergency Medicine, 28 January 1999, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • German Board Certification as Anaesthesiologist, 22 May 2002, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Certificate for Anaesthesiology of the Dutch Society of Medical Specialists,
    Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Certificate for Program Director of Anaesthesiology Residency Program of the Dutch Society of Medical Specialists, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Certificate for Inspector of Residency Training Programs of the Dutch Society of Medical Specialists, The Netherlands.
  • Certificate Basiscursus Regelgeving en Organisatie voor Klinisch Onderzoekers (BROK®)
  • University Teaching Qualification (UTQ)

 Fields of Study:

  • Innovation in Postgraduate Medical Education:
    Skills development, Communication, Personal development and (mental) wellbeing
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring
  • Pharmacokinetics and - dynamics

 Educational and Research performance:

  • Training in: Crew Resource Management, Working with small groups, Assessing Learning Outcomes, Human Factors Training, Teach the Teacher course (3 parts)
  • Masterclasses in coaching residents, coaching clinical teacher team and leadership.
  • Residents in-training: 75 (2020)
  • Performed research projects: 5 multi centre trials, 5 single centre trials
  • Conduction of PhD thesis projects: 6 completed, 3 ongoing
  • Research output: 41 publications, 584 citations, h-index: 15
  • 6 book chapters, 5 multi media series

 Membership of scientific societies:

  • Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
  • Dutch Society of Medical Education (NVMO)
  • European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (ESAIC)
  • International Anaesthesia Research Society (IARS)
  • Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology (NVA)
  • Federation of Medical Specialist (FMS)
  • German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI/BDA)

 Living at Groningen, the Netherlands

Married, 1 son (2003), hobby’s: sailing, climbing, woodworking

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