Prof. Dr. Michael Hoelscher, MD, FRCP(Lond)

Michael Hoelscher is the director of Global Health & Infectious Diseases at the Department for Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine at the Medical Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. He studied Medicine in Munich and joint the Department of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine thereafter. During his internal medicine and microbiology training he took several sabbatical leaves and worked at the US Walter-Reed-Institute and the Mbeya Referral Hospital in Tanzania. In 2010 he was appointed as Professor and Director of the Global Health & Infectious Diseases.