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About my person
Holger Pfaff
University of Cologne, Germany
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AgendaVision and MissionStructurePeopleResearch NetworksEducationFuture
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Vision and Mission
Additionally: Identifying general prequisites fororganizational performance in healthcare to improve
health, health services and health innovation
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AgendaVision and MissionPersonal BackgroundOfficial RolesResearch InterestsTeaching InterestsFuture Goals
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Personal Background1. Education
HabilitationSociology, Technical University Berlin, Institute for Sociology (postdoctoral qualification for a teaching career in higher education; subject: “Work, Technology and Health”), 1995
PhDSociology, Technical University Berlin, Institute for Sociology, 1989 (subject of thesis: “Coping with stress and social support”) (summa cum laude)
DiplomaAdministrative Sciences, University of Constance, Germany, 1981 (subject of thesis: “Work organization and health preservation)
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Personal Background2. Professional Experience
(1) University of Cologne: Faculty of Human Sciences and Faculty of Medicine- Since 2009 Professor of Quality Development and Evaluation in Rehabilitation, Faculty of Human Sciences,
Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Cologne
- Since 2009 Director, Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science (IMVR), a joint institute between the Faculty of Human Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne
- Since 2002 Director, Center for Health Services Research Cologne (ZVFK) of the University of Cologne
- 1997 – 2008 Professor of Medical Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne
(2) Technical University of Berlin, Institute for Sociology
1995 – 1997 Visiting Professor of Technical and Industrial Sociology
1986 – 1995 Research Fellow
(3) University of Oldenburg, Institute for Sociology
1983 – 1986 Research Fellow, University of Oldenburg
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Personal Background(3) Visiting research2014 – 2015 European Visiting Research Fellowship, Health
Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK
2011 Visiting Research Scholar and „Executive in Residence“, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2011 Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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AgendaVision and MissionPersonal BackgroundOfficial RolesResearch InterestsTeaching InterestsFuture Goals
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Official Roles (past and present)1. Elected member of the Review Board of the German Research Foundation
(DFG) for the subject area Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine; since 2012; reelected in 2016
2. Chairman, board of experts of the German Innovation Fund (Appointed by the German Federal Ministry of Health) (Since 2016; re-elected: 2018)
3. Spokesman of the association of professors teaching health services research at German universities and universities of applied sciences; since 2016
4. Deputy Chairman, German Network Health Services Research; from 2012-2014
5. President, German Network Health Services Research; from 2006 -2012
6. Director, IMVR, University of Cologne7. Director, Centre for Health Services Research Cologne (ZVFK)
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AgendaVision and MissionPersonal BackgroundOfficial RolesResearch InterestsTeaching InterestsFuture Goals
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Research InterestsOrganisational Health Services Research
– How is it possible to improve organizational learning in health care organizations?
– What are the success factors for improving quality management and safety culture in hospitals?
– What factors improve the spread of health innovations?– What are the social dynamics in HCO which produce upward or
downward spirals of success?
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AgendaVision and MissionPersonal BackgroundOfficial RolesResearch InterestsTeaching InterestsFuture Goals
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Teaching InterestsStandard textbook in Germany on HSR (2nd edition)
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Future Goals
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IMVR Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services
Research and Rehabilitation Science
Faculty of Human ScienceFaculty of Medicine
University of Cologne
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