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Prof. Dr. med Pascal O. Berberat, MME, FACS – Professional & Academic Summary:
• Over 20 years of experience in academics of clinical medicine.
• Over 10 years of experience at the executive level in the higher education environment.
• Expert in strategic thinking and decision-making with regard to higher education faculty matters.
• Manager and supervisor of numerous local, national and international educational initiatives.
• Invited lecturer and expert concerning the advancement of medical education.
Short Bio:
Pascal Berberat (b.1971) studied medicine in Bern (Switzerland) und Los Angeles (USA) and completed his training as a general surgeon in Bern, Boston (USA) and Heidelberg (Germany). He acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification (habilitation) in 2007 in Heidelberg before taking up the position of consultant surgeon at Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich (TUM). He has subsequently obtained a master’s degree in Medical Education (Heidelberg) and headed the Medical Education Center at the TUM School of Medicine and Health since 2010. In 2015 Berberat was appointed to TUM’s newly established Chair for Medical Education. From 2017 - 2023 he served as Dean of studies, in Oct 2023 he was elected as Vice Dean Academic and Student Affairs of TUM School of Medicine and Health. His responsibility is the curriculum and study program development. Also, since 2017 he serves as Chair to the Deans of Studies at the TUM Extended Board of Management.
Berberat is active in two research areas: In the field of instruction and teacher research his focus lies on a better understanding of teaching and learning processes in order to optimize evidence-based didactic methods and to systematically analyze the attitude, motivation and behavior of medical doctors as lecturers and tutors. His second research area concentrates on medical educational biographies with the main focus on professional identity-formation and dealing with existential borderline experiences (such as suffering, dying and death) in daily clinical practice.