Thomas Händl

Dr. med. Thomas Händl

Dr. Thomas Haendl is head of the department of emergency medicine at the hospital of Klinikum Garmisch Partenkirchen/ Germany.

About 30.000 patients are treated annually in the emergency department.

The hospital is a teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich/ Germany

Dr. Thomas Haendl is an internal medicine specialist, intensivist and a specialist in clinical emergency medicine.

He completed his residency and fellowship in the department of medicine 1 at the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he got especially trained in ultrasound and intensive care.

He was author and co-author of several studies about contrast enhanced and GI ultrasound.

From 2010-2020 he worked as senior consultant at the department of emergency medicine of the university hospital of Augsburg/ Germany.

He emphasizes the usefulness of Ultrasound in bedside assessment of critically ill and emergency patients in daily clinical practice.

He is deeply involved in ultrasound education and gives ultrasound courses and lectures locally and at meetings for the German, Austrian and Swiss societies of ultrasound in medicine.