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Health for ALL!

We invite you to take part in the 15th Health Congress at Furtwangen University on 29 April, starting at 4.00pm! This time, we will be focusing on successful strategies through personalised health.

Medicine and public health aim to provide the best possible care – ideally tailored to individual needs. Personalised health combines both disciplines by focusing on medical and health-related care as well as healthy and sick individuals. Insights gained at the individual level regarding effective strategies for health promotion/prevention, diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation should benefit the entire population and thus also contribute to reducing health inequalities. The possibilities and limitations of personalised health will also be discussed.

Look forward to new insights and inspiration. Participation is free of charge. Please register using the link below. We look forward to seeing you there!

External link opens in a new window:Registration for the Health Congress

3.30pm: Doors open and registration

We warmly welcome you in the O Building, the “Old Hospital,” on Luisenstraße!

4.00 - 5.15pm: Welcome and opening
  • Thematic introduction and moderation
    Prof. Dr. med. Kirsten Steinhausen, HFU
  • Opening Remarks from the Office of the President and the District Administration
    Prof. Dr. Christoph Reich, Vice-President for Research and Sustainability at HFU, and District Administrator Sven Hinterseh, Schwarzwald-Baar District
  • Keynote: “I Am Many Things – The Human Microbiome and Personalised Medicine”
    Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Egert, HFU
5.15 - 6.00pm: Supporting programme
  • starting at 3.30pm: Information booths - Room LG 0.07
  • 5.15 - 6.00pm: Coffee break
  • 5.30 - 6.00pm: Guided poster exhibition - Room LG 0.10/11
  • 5.30 - 6.00pm: Tour of the practice rooms - Room 1st Floor 1.18
  • 5.20 –5.35pm: Yoga breathing workshop - Room 1st Floor 1.29
  • 5.40 –5.55pm: Yoga breathing workshop - Room 1st Floor 1.29
6.00 - 7.45pm: Workshop & lectures

Presentations


Ethical aspects of personalised healthcare (Room EG 0.10/11)

  • 6.00 - 6.45pm: V1 Between Personalisation and Participation: Identifying Barriers, Shaping Inclusion in Healthcare
    Prof. Dr. Martina Wanner, Prof. Dr. Sandra Mirbek, Prof. Dr. Frank Birk, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
  • 7.00 - 7.45pm: V2 Ethics rounds in the intensive care unit: Feasibility and implications
    Paul-Simon Lievertz, Senior Physician in Anesthesiology, Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee, Schwarzwald-Baar Hospital

Medical Aspects – Treatment concepts (Room EG 0.07)

  • 6.00 - 6.45pm: V3 Personalised Medicine in Pathology – Key Element in Oncological Treatment Approaches
    PD Dr. med. Simon Kind, Institute of Pathology, Schwarzwald-Baar Hospital
  • 7.00 - 7.45pm: V4 From Standard to Individualisation – The Advantages of Personalised Endoprosthetics
    Dr. Jonas Faller, Endoprosthetics Center, Schwarzwald-Baar Hospital

Medical Aspects – Diagnostics (Room 1st Floor 1.01)

  • 6.00 - 6.45pm: V5 Diagnostic Options for the Prevention of Fecal Incontinence
    Prof. Dr. med. Constanze Kiese, Faculty III: Health, Medical and Life Sciences, Furtwangen University
  • 7.00 - 7.45pm: V6 Research on Sensor Balloon Catheters for Personalised Medicine
    Benjamin Sittkus, Institute for Microsystems Technology, Furtwangen University

Personalised Healthcare – Nursing (Room OG 1.02)

  • 6.00 - 6.45pm: V7 Personalised Healthcare for Complex Care Situations – Integrating Academically Qualified Nurses (aqP) into Inpatient Long-Term Care
    Anna Tapiwa Marange, Care and Technology Lab, Furtwangen University
  • 7.00 - 7.45pm: V8 Reasons for the non-use of existing support services for young family caregivers in Germany – a qualitative interview study
    Anna Kaltenbach, Care and Technology Lab, Furtwangen University

Medical Aspects – Digital Health (Room OG 1.05)

  • 6.00 - 6.45pm: V9 Restoration of dynamic accommodation in presbyopia using neuromuscularly controlled artificial lenses
    Torsten Straßer, Research Institute for Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen
  • 7.00 - 7.45pm: V10 Digitalisation in the healthcare sector – Opportunity or risk for patients and healthcare facilities? Information security as a prerequisite for personalised healthcare
    Jessica Hertenstein, Botenstoffe Consulting GmbH

Workshop (Room OG 1.04)

Women’s Health in the menopause: Challenges and Potential Interventions
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Steinhausen and Carina Johnssen, Faculty of Health, Medical and Life Sciences, Furtwangen University

  • 6.00 - 6.45pm: Content-related input on the workshop topic
  • 7.00 - 7.45pm: Discussion session to develop potential solutions
8.15pm onwards: wrap-up

Room 0.32, Ground Floor

We invite you to join us for some networking over finger food and drinks.

Travel directions

Please find attached a map showing how to get to the venue. We are located at Luisenstraße 17 in Furtwangen.

If you are coming by car, please use only the designated parking spaces. Thank you!

Download file:Campus plan

A trusted platform for health-related topics

You see the President Alexandra Bormann at a speaker's lectern

Dr Alexandra Bormann, HFU President, at the 2024 Health Congress

As a university of applied sciences, we offer a platform for current and health-related topics every year with the Health Congress. Our aim is to raise awareness, discuss and identify solutions.

The congress is a further project of the Schwarzwald-Baar Health Network, the inaugural event having taken place in 2009. A core idea of the health network is to promote exchange between health stakeholders. In addition to networking in the field of research and practice, it is also important to offer interested private individuals a platform for information and exchange. The congress is therefore aimed at a wide range of different visitors.

HFU and the health network organise the health congress together with the university's support association and the City of Furtwangen. Each year, the congress is dedicated to health-related and socially relevant topics and challenges.

Past events

2025: Mental Health: Where do we stand? - Effectively maintaining, promoting and restoring mental health

Furtwangen University hosted the 14th Health Congress on 2 April, 2025.

In lectures, workshops and a poster exhibition a large number of visitors were introduced to and discussed current findings on the mental health of various target groups, effective strategies for prevention and health promotion as well as suitable and sufficient therapy and care concepts for mentally ill people.

External link opens in a new window:Read more about the 2025 Health Congress
Download file:2025 programme to download

Some impressions
Congress poster with a graphic showing a head and the title Mental Health
You see a room full of people listening to a speaker on stage.
Prof. Reich on the stage
You see a room full of people listening to a speaker on stage.
You see a person speaking into a microphone
You see a group of organisers and speakers on the stage
You see a small room with people listening to a speaker at the front
You see the keynote speaker signing an autograph
You see an overhead view of a hand drawing a cartoon
Topics - Lectures and workshops

Take-home messages

The key statements, ideas and stimuli from the individual items on the programme have been compiled as a thematic congress summary:

Download file:Take-home messages 2025 Health Congress

2024: Climate and health - perspectives, challenges and opportunities for the healthcare sector

To our press release

 

Key contacts

We're happy to answer your questions!

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Steinhausen
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Steinhausen Vice-Dean for Partnership and Society
Deputy Dean Faculty III: Health, Medical & Life Sciences
International Coordinator AGW/SSB
Sabine Grimm Member of academic staff
Organization Health Congress
Operations Manager Hazardous Materials Lab
 Mail gesundheitskongress@hs-furtwangen.de
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