Dr. Robert Gerl

Co-Founder

US- European Joint Educational MBA Program

Biography – Dr. med. Robert Gerl (MBA)

Robert Gerl is the German coordinator and co-founder of the European joint-educational MBA program on health & medical tourism, cross-border healthcare & health destination management at the University of Applied Sciences in Deggendorf/ Bavaria, where he is also assigned as associate professor. He has initiated this MBA program in 2008 together with Tomas Mainil from Breda University in Netherlands. Meanwhile several leading European Universities have joined the program. The initiative is also funded by the Bavaria California Technology Center.

Robert Gerl received his medical training at the Technical University of Munich where he graduated in 2003. He attained his medical doctoral degree at the University of Ulm after two extensive expeditions to India, Nepal and Tibet on the subject of Tibetan Medicine. He then worked as a physician at two different university teaching hospitals in the area of Munich. In 2008 he finished his MBA in Healthcare Management at Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences. He also holds a diploma as a paramedic and as fitness trainer.

After being a consultant in the field of e-health and mobile applications in emergency medicine he had been project manager in a FP6 European Research Project in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL = smart home & telemedicine) at the Generation Research Program of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. After that he consulted at Meditrainment GmbH in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the areas of AAL, medical quality management and  health & medical tourism.

In 2008 he co-founded the company German Healthcare Services and in 2009 the subdivision of German Healthcare Consulting. He is currently commissioned to consult in a one year quality management project at the International Office of Europe´s most modern University Clinic, the UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf. Moreover he is consulting the Bavarian State Ministry of Environment and Public Health on marketing Bavarian clinics on a national, European and global level. In 2009 he is planning to do further consulting projects on medical tourism in Europe within the exchange program of Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs.