Faculty Council
The Faculty Council is an elected body of the Faculty of Medicine. It is responsible for all matters concerning research and teaching as well as for passing resolutions on the departmental regulations and other regulations for the faculty.
The Faculty Council is not responsible for matters of the department for which the Dean is responsible, or another competence is determined.
(Sec. 28 HG NRW [“Hochschulgesetz” or “Gesetz über die Hochschulen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen”: German Law on the Universities in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia] dated 16 September 2014).
The members of the Faculty of Medicine and the students elect the Faculty Council under the chairmanship of the Dean. The tenure of the professors and the representatives of the academic staff lasts two years. The tenure of the students is one year.
The regular meetings of the Faculty Council take place on a monthly basis during the semester and are divided into a public and a non-public part. The right to participate in the meetings results from the Basic Regulations of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the Higher Education Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Current notice:
Due to the current Corona pandemic situation, Faculty Council meetings will be conducted exclusively virtually as a Microsoft Teams meeting.
However, we are offering faculty members the opportunity to participate in the video conference. Access credentials are available through the .
Further Information
Remarks of the Faculty Council Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine
According to the Higher Education Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (HG NRW), the meeting of the Faculty Council must be distinguished between a public and a non-public meeting (§12 para. 2 sentences 1 and 3 HG NRW). The meetings of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Medicine of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf are therefore held in two parts.
The circle of participants of the public or non-public meeting results from § 11 Abs. 5 of the Basic Regulations of the HHU Düsseldorf as well as § 16 Abs. 5 HG NRW and § 28 Abs. 5 HG NRW.
The following are entitled to participate:
Public meeting:
- All members of the Faculty of Medicine
- The entire public, i.e. also non-members of the Faculty of Medicine
Non-public session:
- Elected members of the Faculty Council and their alternates
- Members of the Dean's Office
- Members of the Rectorate
- Equal Opportunity Officer
- Executive heads of the scientific institutions of the faculty or the heads of departments of the university hospital
- Members of a faculty committee that has been delegated by the department council to prepare a specific decision may attend for the committee's report
In the case of consultation of appointment lists, all professors are entitled to participate.
Non-voting members:
Dean: Prof. Dr. Nikolaj Klöcker
Associate Dean: Prof. Dr. Ertan Mayatepek
Vice Dean: Prof. Dr. Guido Reifenberger
Vice Dean for Teaching and Academic Quality: Prof. Dr. Dr. Svenja Caspers
Vice Dean for Strategic Development: Prof. Dr. Heiner Fangerau
Medical Director of the UKD: Prof. Dr. Frank Schneider
Commercial Director of the UKD: Ekkehard Zimmer
Faculty Equal Opportunity Officers: Dr. Julia Seyfarth, Dr. Chantal Marazia, Dr. Nadine Lübke
Voting members:
Group of professors:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Reichert, Prof. Dr. Alfons Schnitzler, Prof. Dr. Jörg Timm, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wesselborg, Prof. Dr. Tanja Fehm, Prof. Dr. Hubert Schelzig, Prof. Dr. Dr. Sven Meuth, Prof. Dr. Lars Christian Rump
Substitute: Prof. Dr. Petra Gierthmühlen, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker, Prof. Dr. Gerald Antoch, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Ritz-Timme, Prof. Dr. Jörg Schipper, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hänggi
Group of scientific employees:
Dr. Sandra Berger, Dr. Carsten Döing, Dr. Markus Jördens
Substitutes: Verena Leve, Dr. Thomas Muth, Dr. Bahne Hendrik Bahners
Group of students:
Anna Jasmin Heusch, Marie Regine Latour, Carltin Titus Schmidt
Substitutes: Onur Aydemir, Luisa Nada Veronika Spallek, Anthony Nucaro