Professor Rene Gottschalk is a specialist for Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and a specialist for Medical Public Healthcare as well. He is the Chief Medical Officer and Commissioner of the Health Protection Authority City of Frankfurt am Main (Germany). At the Institute for Medical Virology, University Hospital Frankfurt he is Professor for Medical Public Healthcare, Health Protection and for Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases. Before studying medicine he worked in the pharmaceutical industry as an Engineer for biomedical technology. Since its foundation by the Hessian Ministry of Health in 2001, he has been head of the Competence Center for Highly Pathogenic Infectious Agents (KHPI) for the federal states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. He is spokesman of the Permanent Working Group of Competence and Treatment Centres for diseases caused by highly pathogenic pathogens (STAKOB) at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin (RKI). As a national advisory board, this working group evaluates new findings on certain pathogens/infectious diseases and makes corresponding statements for medical experts. Additionally he is an senior advisor for the Federal Agency for Information on Biological Hazards and Special Pathogens (IBBS) at the RKI He is a permanent member of the Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention and Management of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation (CAPSCA) for implementation of ICAO, WHO, ACI and IATA guidelines.