Priv.-Doz. PhD. Dr. Konstantina Kontogianni is Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her post diplomatic education includes: Registrar in respiratory medicine in 1st Respiratory Medicine Department, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece and received training in Interventional Respiratory Medicine at Centre for Respiratory Medicine in Oxford, UK. After becoming Specialist in Respiratory Medicine she worked for NHS in the UK, as Specialist Registrar. While working in Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, she was granted the Level 1 Certificate of competence in Transthoracic Ultrasound, according to the BTS requirements. Since then she has been teaching thoracic ultrasound every year for the ERS Congress skills workshop. During her residency she was actively engaged in Interventional Pulmonology (IP), which soon became her main field of interest. In 2012 she was granted the Long Term Fellowship from European Respiratory Society and has been learning and working as a fellow for one year with Prof. Felix Herth in Thoraxklinik Heidelberg, Germany. Here she has been trained in all aspects of IP. Starting in 2014 and until present, she is working in the Thoraxklinik Heidelberg as a senior consultant and specialist in respiratory medicine in the Department of Interventional Pulmonology. Since 2021 she is the head of this department. She has been granted PhD from the University of Athens Medical School in 2015 and in January 2024 the Titel of Associate Proffessor Venia Legendi – Privat Dozentin of the University of Heidelberg. She is also responsible for the clinical studies department which performs several prospective randomized controlled clinical trials and several ongoing research projects regarding IP. She is organizing IP and EBUS courses in cooperation with the ERS and the German Respiratory Society. She has been awarded from ERS in 2013 the teaching certificate for IP, in 2016 the ERS Interventional Pulmonology Travel Grant, in 2018 the ERS-EBUS certificates part 1, 2 and 3. She is since 2014 a member of the European Respiratory Society College of Experts, has been reviewing ERS fellowships for the past 9 years and is also an active Task Force Member and EBUS working group Education Counsil Member.
