Juergen Braun, MD
born in Duesseldorf on September 2nd 1953
married since April 1982, 4 children
Medical Director, Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet, Herne, Germany
Professor of Rheumatology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Professor of Rheumatology, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Jürgen Braun is Professor of Rheumatology at the Free University Berlin, Germany, since 2000 and at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, since 2004. In 2003, he was elected and appointed as a full professor at the university of Regensburg. In 2001, he became Medical Director of the Rheumazentrum Ruhrgebiet in Herne, Germany.
After his final medical examen at the Free University Berlin, Germany in May 1985, Prof. Braun received his MD (Dr. med.) scientific degree in 1987; he further received degrees for medical specialisations in Internal Medicine and in Sports Medicine in 1993, in Rheumatology in 1996, in Physical Therapy in 1998, and in Laboratory Medicine in 2001.
Prof. Braun has been an advisory board member of the German Society for Rheumatology (DGRh) since 2007, in 2009 he became vicepresident and he is the current president in 2011-2012. Since 2007, he is also Executive Board member of the German ‘Verband Rheumatologischer Akutkliniken’ e. V. (VRA).
Professor Braun has been a steering committee member of the Assessments in Ankylosing Spondylitis (ASAS) International Society (2004-2010) and also of GRAPPA, the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, (2005-2009).
Prof. Braun received many prestigious awards for his research, including the Research Award of the German Morbus Bechterew Society (DVMB) in 1996, the Tosse award in Pediatric Rheuma-tology in 1998, the Carol Nachman-Research-Award in 2000 and the EULAR award in 2003. In 2004, he was appointed inaugural R.Inman lecturer at the University of Toronto.
Prof. Braun has been invited to speak about his research at the National Institutes of Health, the ACR, EULAR and APLAR Congresses, and several other international venues including the national meetings of the British, the Irish, the Scottish, the Indian, the Scandinavian, the Danish, the Dutch, the Belgian, the Italian, the Spanish, the Portugese, the Greek, the Turkish, the Maroccan, the Russian, the Chinese, the Hongkong and Taiwanese, and the German Society of Rheumatology.
Professor Braun authored and co-authored > 400 articles and publications in scientific journals including the Lancet and is internationally well known for his research in inflammatory rheumatic diseases, especially the spondyloarthritides, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
