Annemarie Weißenbacher signed the contract as a PMU rector

“All formal steps have now been completed. I am very pleased that we were able to bring the conversations in a constructive and targeted cooperation,” emphasizes Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sperl. With 1.1,2026, Assoz. Prof. Annemarie Weißenbacher officially run her new task as Rector of the PMU. The 43-year-old visceral and transplant surgeon follows Univ.-Prof. Wolfgang Sperl, who leads the PMU in the second term by the end of the year. “”I am extremely happy and it is a great honor for me to be able to lead the PMU as a rector in the future. I will exercise this function with the appropriate humility, but also with determination and I am really looking forward to working with my new team“, The native of Tennen emphasizes after the contract was signed.

“Personality with the highest medical expertise”

The Board of Trustees of the Paracelsus Medical University had chosen Weißenbacher after a multi -stage selection process. Foundation council chairman Governor Dr. Wilfried Haslauer then commissioned the PMU to enter into negotiations with the candidate and justified the decision: “This guarantees that a personality with the highest medical competence, but also great design, continues to lead this institution that is so important for the medical location. It is also ensured with this choice that the medical and scientific achievements of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sperl as an important foundation for further development.“After the successful order negotiations, the contract was finally signed last night. A orderly and comprehensive handover of the agendas between Rector Sperl and his successor is already being planned.

Via the Paracelsus Medical University

The Paracelsus Medical University (PMU), founded in Salzburg in 2002, as a medical university in private sponsorship, offers a unique combination of the specialist areas of human medicine, nursing science and pharmacy and stands for strong research performance and multi-professional training and further education with the highest technical claim. The Salzburg University Hospital is the integral partner in teaching, research and clinical practice at the PMU location in Salzburg. In cooperation with the Nuremberg Clinic, a second location of the PMU was founded in Nuremberg in Nuremberg for the Human Medicine Department. The aim of the PMU is to train and further train excellent doctors, nursing scientists and pharmacists, which in practice are characterized by high levels of action and social responsibility and that are enabled to provide special achievements in research and teaching.