Events for Alumni
Past events
On 11 May 2023, the Management Board invited Karl Landsteiner University students, Alumni Club members and teaching staff to a fireside chat with neuroscientist Dr Dietrich Haubenberger. Dietrich Haubenberger is one of Austria's most successful expatriates in the field of neuroscience in the USA. The neurologist conducts translational research with a focus on movement disorders. In addition to his role as head of clinical translational research at the biopharmaceutical company Neurocrine Biosciences in San Diego, he has been president of ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) since 2019. Following the fireside chat, there was an exclusive get-together for alumni club members at the Filmbar.
Mag. Sandra Gaupmann is head of the psychological service at Stein Prison and reported on 29 November on the work of psychologists in the prison system. She provided an insight into the definition of the term ‘forensic psychology’ as well as the diagnosis, treatment and care of prisoners, focusing on risk management, risk reduction and rehabilitation. In conversation with Mag. Dr. Jürgen Goller, Head of the Psychology programme at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Mag. Gaupmann discussed the psychological causes of delinquency, the benefits of treating prisoners for the population, and criminal responsibility in connection with mental illness.
Following this thematically very exciting fireside chat, a networking meeting for all alumni club members present took place in a cosy atmosphere, during which Ms Gaupmann was available for discussions and exchanges.
The Alumni Club of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences would like to express its sincere thanks to Ms Gaupmann for the successful evening, the insights into forensic psychology and the subsequent exchange.
Applications of artificial intelligence will fundamentally transform medicine. This process has already begun. Established practices, existing relationships and role models, as well as environments in the healthcare sector, are changing at an increasing pace. The great transformation of medicine through artificial intelligence is the subject of the new book by Prof. Giovanni Rubeis entitled ‘Ethics of Medical AI’, which has just been published by Springer Nature. During the fireside chat, Prof. Rubeis and Prof. Clemens Heitzinger discussed the impact of technology on medicine today.
Prof. Giovanni Rubeis heads the Department of Biomedical Ethics and Health Care Ethics at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. He is co-founder and coordinator of the ‘Digitalisation and Health’ working group of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM) and leads ethics training courses for the Austrian Medical Association and the German Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists (BPtK).
Associate Professor Clemens Heitzinger is co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML) at the Vienna University of Technology. He is an associate professor in the Machine Learning Research Unit of the Institute of Information Systems Engineering in the Department of Informatics (Computer Science).