Prof. Bettina Baeßler studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn and completed her subspecialty training in radiology at the University Hospital Cologne. After a senior physician position at the University Medical Center Mannheim, she moved to the University Hospital Zurich in 2019, where she worked until October 2021 as a senior physician and research group leader.
Since October 2021, she has been a W2 Professor for Clinical Radiology (focus on cardiovascular imaging) at the University Hospital Würzburg and head of the Cardiovascular Imaging section until October 2023. In addition to her intensive and multiple award-winning research activities (most recently with the prestigious Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Prize of the German Radiological Society 2020), Bettina Baeßler has been involved in student education at the Medical Faculty of Cologne at an early stage and, as a teaching coordinator for the subject of radiology, developed and implemented an innovative new curriculum.
Part of this curriculum, among other innovative e-learning formats, was a YouTube channel with freely accessible German-language teaching videos on the technical content of radiological modalities, which has since enjoyed great popularity. Her commitment to student education led to a nomination for the Ars Legendi Faculty Prize Medicine 2019 by the student body and the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne.
Her voluntary commitment to the development of the “CoRad-19” format of the German Radiological Society for the design of digital education during the Corona pandemic 2019 earned Prof. Baeßler, together with other colleagues, the Wachsmann Innovation Prize of the German Radiological Society in 2020.
Prof. Baeßler is a project group spokesperson in the further development of the National Competence-Based Catalog of Learning Objectives in Human Medicine (NKLM) and has also significantly represented the interests of the field of radiology there. As co-speaker of the sub-working group “Implementation NKLM,” she is co-responsible for the implementation of the NKLM at German faculties in the coming years.
Furthermore, she is an internationally recognized expert in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, certified by the German Radiological Society with a Q3 certification, and has been a lecturer in various certification courses for cardiac MRI for many years. Not least because of her clinical focus on cardiac MRI, she has a broad network of experts and access to a large number of clinical cases.
