New Head of the Health Department

Barbara Wondrasch takes over as Head of the Department of Health Sciences at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. A senior lecturer at the St. Pölten UAS since 2012, she has headed the Institute of Health Sciences since November 2023 (technically, she filled the position of interim head as early as November 2022).

Sports Physiotherapists with A Focus on Arthrosis

Barbara Wondrasch completed the Academy for Physiotherapeutic Service at the general hospital Vienna (AKH), trained as a sports physiotherapist at the International Sports Medicine Academy, graduated from the master degree programme “Evidence-Based Physiotherapy" at FH Campus-Wien”, and earned her PhD at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.

Since 2012, she has worked at the St. Pölten UAS as a senior lecturer where she was involved in the development of continuing education programmes at master level and headed two master-level continuing education programmes herself. She has dedicated her research activities to clinical research with a focus on arthrosis. Wondrasch has authored numerous publications on this topic and is a member in many international expert associations and a reviewer for many renowned academic journals.

“We express our heartfelt congratulations to Barbara Wondrasch and, at the same time, we take this occasion to thank her for the great work she has been doing. We look forward to a good and hopefully successful, long collaboration and wish her and her entire team all the best for the further development of our department”, emphasise UAS Executive Directors Johann Haag and Hannes Raffaseder.  

Barbara Wondrasch will take over the responsibilities of Christine Pomikal who left the UAS at her own request.

Department of Health Sciences of the St. Pölten UAS

The department offers the following study programmes: Dietetics (Bachelor), Physiotherapy (Bachelor) und Healthcare and NursingPLUS (Bachelor) with the Continuing Education Programme Preclinical Care and Nursing.

The Institute of Health Sciences conducts the department’s research. The institute carries out interdisciplinary research on health topics and neighbouring topic areas and develops high-quality, technology-based didactic solutions for (further) education in the health professions.

Interdisciplinary research and teaching that bring together the health disciplines play a significant role at the department with particular importance given to the close collaboration between the fields of health, social work and digital technologies.