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