Prof. Monika Gappa

Monika is Professor of Paediatrics and Director of the Children's Hospital, EVK Düsseldorf. She is the President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). Her specialist area is paediatric respiratory health and disease, with key areas of interest being early determinants of respiratory disease, prevention, lung function testing and asthma, especially severe asthma.

Specialist in pediatrics with a focus on neonatology and additional specializations in allergology and pediatric pneumology

Prof. Monika Gappa is committed to her medical fields nationally and internationally in a variety of ways. She is a member of the nationwide asthma guidelines committee, the board of the West German Working Group on Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology and several committees of the European Pulmonary Association. She is also co-editor of the magazine “Der Pneumologe”, advises international medical journals and is one of the speakers at the nationwide training event “Pneumo Update”.

Since 2011, Monika Gappa has been continuously included in the annual FOCUS doctor list. And she does this twice: as an expert in allergies and asthma. This means that the head physician at the Evangelical Hospital in Düsseldorf has been one of the 1,500 top doctors in Germany for many years.