Richard Crevenna

Biography

Crevenna studied medicine at the medical faculty of the University of Graz. His dissertation dealt with a genetic subject. He was habilitated in 2004 at the Medical University of Vienna (MUW) with a study on oncologic rehabilitation in physical medicine. In the same year he was named associate professor for physical medicine. Crevenna completed his study 2010 with a MBA in health care management and 2011 with a MSc (interdisciplinary pain medicine, algesiology), both at the MUW. He is also trained in geriatrics. Since 2014 Crevenna holds the position of the pro tempore manager of the Universitätsklinik für Physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation at the MUW.

One of Crevenna's key research areas is oncologic rehabilitation, a field where he undetook substantive work in Austria and where his team trained the first patients under chemotherapy in Austria as well as the first patients with bone metastasis worldwide.

Other prioritized topics of Crevenna are physical medicine, rehabilitation, pain management and biofeedback as well as gender- and diversity aspects. All his studies were taken in an interdisciplinary und multiprofessional cooperation.

Academic teaching and non-university teaching (contribution at the cancer school of the comprehensive cancer center, children university, university meets public) and the clinical patient care are further priorities and interests. At the MUW Crevenna is a member of the board for handicapped people since 2014.

Scientific contribution

Key areas of Crevenna's scientific and medical work comprise aspects of the so-called medical exercise therapy and especially of the interdisciplinary oncologic rehabilitation from the point of view of medical medicine and rehabilitation. The formation, implementation and management of an oncologic rehabilitation ambulance at the Universitätsklinik für Physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation as well as the regularly coordination of an interdisciplinary and multi- professional tumor board for oncologic rehabilitation at the MUW (comprehensive cancer center), both bear witness of the growing and fundamental importance of the subject and also of the importance of an optimal, quality based and reliable interdisciplinary and multi-professional cooperation. Actual efforts are medical and organisational aspects at the formation of interdisciplinary offers for oncologic patients complementing the acute care.

Proof or counter-proof of traditional contraindication in the physical medicine are also an important part of his research efforts. Examples are the application of different forms of the electrotherapy at recipients of electronic implants or at oncologic patients.

Another fixed point are Crevenna's efforts for the method biofeedback, especially for its medical indication. Crevenna could improve the acceptance of this method under medical practitioners. As president of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Biofeedback und Psychophysiologie, ÖBFP, Crevenna integrated biofeedback into the curriculum of the MUW, which improved the acceptance of the method under medical practitioners.

The formation and management of the first university special ambulance for oncologic rehabilitation and for medical training and medical training therapy as well as the implementation of the first tumor board for oncologic rehabilitation worldwide (comprehensive cancer center) are significant progresses in the interdisciplinary approach of Crevenna's discipline. The results were enabled through the scientific efforts of his team and through the acceptance and support in the interdisciplinary cooperation.

Academic memberships

Editorial Boards

Awards

Numerous poster prices of the der Österreichische Gesellschaft für Physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation (ÖGPMR)

Peter Fässler-Weibel Young Investigator Price of the Österreichische Akademie für onkologische Rehabilitation und Psychoonkologie (ÖARP) (twice)

Publications

Publications ResearchGate

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