Claudia Spies

Claudia studied human medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Harvard Medical School in Boston from 1980-87. Since 2005, she has been Director of the Clinic for Anesthesiology with a focus on Surgical Intensive Care Medicine at the Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Charité Campus Mitte, which were combined into one clinic under her leadership. In 2006, she was also appointed medical director of CharitéCenter 7 for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, which is one of the largest anesthesiology and intensive care centers in Europe, with more than 65,000 anesthesias per year and over 120 intensive care beds. From 2011 to 2014, she was also Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Her research focus is patient-oriented risk reduction in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine to prevent post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) and postoperative delirium and cognitive deficit. She has received various research awards such as "Honorary Member" of the "European Society of Intensive Care Medicine" (ESICM). Since 2011, she has been an elected member of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Presidium of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften" (AWMF) and is currently Chair of the Standing Commission "Guidelines" of the AWMF. Furthermore, she is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Action Alliance "Clean Hands" and the Action Alliance Patient Safety and was elected in 2018 to the Committee on Scientific Instrumentation and Information Technology (WGI Committee) of the German Research Foundation (2018-2020) and the Scientific Advisory Board Medicine at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions, Mainz, and in 2020 to the DFG Review Board. For several years, she has been active for various working groups of the German Council of Science and Humanities.

Claudia studied medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nuremberg; Germany, and at Harvard-Medical-School in Boston, USA. Since 2005 she is Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology with a focus on operative Intensive Care Medicine at Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum and Charité Campus Mitte. Both Departments were merged into one clinic under her leadership. In addition, she was appointed Medical Director of the CharitéCentrum 7 for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine in 2006. With more than 65,000 anaesthetics per year and over 120 intensive care beds, CharitéCentrum 7 is one of the largest anaesthesiology and intensive care centers in Europe. From 2011 to 2014, she also served as Vice-Dean for Studies and Teaching at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Her research focus is on patient-oriented risk reduction in anesthesiology and intensive care to avoid and treat post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) and postoperative delirium and cognitive deficits. She has been awarded various research prizes such as the "Honorary Membership" of the "European Society of Intensive Care Medicine" (ESICM) and is an elected member of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences since 2011. She is a member of the Presidium of the "Association of the Scientific Medical Societies" (AWMF) since 2009, and is currently Chair of the Standing Commission on Guidelines of the AWMF. She is also on the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Clean Hands" and "Patient Safety Action Alliance" and was elected to the Committee on Scientific Equipment and Information Technology ("Ausschuss für wissenschaftliche Geräte und Informationstechnik", WGI) of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) in 2018, as well as the Scientific Advisory Board "Medicine" at the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions, and the DFG Review Board in 2020. In the past several years she was also member of various working groups of the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat).