Angela Zacharasiewicz, MD, Prof.

Clinical focus

Paediatric respiratory specialist focused on all respiratory conditions in childhood, paediatric allergy, paediatric asthma, cough syndromes, and cystic fibrosis.

About me

I am a paediatric specialist focused on the respiratory system. I treat all respiratory conditions in childhood, paediatric allergy, paediatric asthma, cough syndromes, and cystic fibrosis. Currently, I am the head of the Paediatric Respiratory Clinic at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna. I am also the Deputy Head of the Working Group on Paediatric Pneumology of the Austrian Society of Pneumology (ÖGP), General Secretary of the Austrian Council on Smoking and Health, the Secretary of the European Respiratory Society, and an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. I am an active researcher focusing on Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Pulmonology. My current projects include “Induced sputum and cystic fibrosis”, cough and wheeze monitoring in respiratory diseases and research into the effects of tobacco exposure on health outcomes in children.

Accepted medical data

Medical report

Experience and training

January 2017 - Today

Consultant in charge of Respiratory Paediatric Clinics (Asthma, CF, Allergy), Department of Pediatrics, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna (Austria)

January 2017 - Today

Consultant in charge of Educational Issues, Department of Paediatrics, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna (Austria)

January 2017 - Today

Secretary, European Respiratory Society: Paediatric Asthma and Allergy Group, Lausanne (Switzerland)

January 2013 - Today

General Secretary, Austrian Council on Smoking and Health, Vienna (Austria)

January 2010 - Today

Consultant Respiratory Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna (Austria)

January 2009 - Today

Head of the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna (Austria)

February 2018 - February 2018

President for Organisation of the Meeting, GPP (Society of Paediatric Pneumology), Vienna (Austria)

October 2013 - October 2016

Head of Working Group Paediatric Pneumology, OGP (Austrian Society of Pneumology), Vienna (Austria)

March 2003 - March 2006

Paediatric Registrar, Department of Paediatrics with Lung Diseases and Infection, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna (Austria)

February 2006 - February 2006

Privat Dozent (Associate Professor), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria)

March 2004 - May 2004

Paediatric Research Fellow, Department of Respiratory Paediatrics, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)

February 2002 - February 2003

Paediatric Research Fellow, Department of Respiratory Paediatrics, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)

January 2001 - January 2002

Registrar, Department of Paediatrics with Lung Diseases and Infection, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna (Austria)

January 2000 - September 2000

Paediatric Research Fellow, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington Asthma Research Group, Otago (New Zealand)

January 1999 - December 1999

University Assistant, the Department of Epidemiology, Institute for Cancer Research, University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria)

January 1992 - January 1998

Medical Studies, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria)

Licensures and memberships

Memberships

• Austrian Paediatric Society (ÖGKJ)
• Austrian Society of Pneumology (ÖGP)
• European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• European Cystic Fibrosis Society (ECFS)
• Society of Paediatric Pneumology (GPP)
• General Secretary and Medical Advisory Board, Austrian Association on Smoking and Health
• Society of Paediatric Pneumology (GPP), Deputy Head of the Working Group Lung function
• Society of Physicians (Gesellschaft der Ärzte), Member of the Organising Committee

Publications

• ResearchGate
• PubMed