Dr Hans Michael Haitchi DM, MMed (INT), PhD, PD, PGcert, FHEA
Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine & Clinician Scientist, NHS Honorary Consultant Physician
Dr Hans Michael Haitchi is an Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine & Clinician Scientist within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant Physician in Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Having graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (DM) from the University in Graz, Austria in 1990 he trained as an Emergency Physician and General Practitioner in Austria. In 1996 he moved to South Africa where he completed his specialist training in Internal Medicine with a special interest in Pulmonary Medicine at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town in 2001. He also graduated with a Master in Medicine (MMed) from the University of Stellenbosch, SA in 2000. He completed his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2008. In 2009 he received a Postgraduate Certificate in education and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Hans Michael Haitchi held a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinician Scientist Fellowship from 2010 to 2014 in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. This MRC fellowship took him from 2010-2011 to the USA, where he did research as a visiting scientist and scholar in Professor Whitsett's pulmonary biology lab in Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Back in Southampton, Dr. Haitchi leads a group that investigates the pathogenesis of asthma and other chronic lung diseases. His particular interest is in the role of the asthma susceptibility gene ADAM33 and influence of the maternal environment on the early origin of lung disease using in vivo and in vitro asthma and allergic airway inflammation research models.
His research is based in the Faculty of Medicine and NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Centre, where he is a principle investigator.
In 2014 he was awarded the title of ‘Privatdozent’ (PD, Priv. Doz.) for Pneumology at the Paracelsus Medical University (PMU) in Salzburg Austria.
Appointments held
Research Fellow, AVL Medical Instruments, Graz, Austria, 1991
Millitary assistant medical doctor, Federal Ministry of Defence, Austria, 1991-1992
House and Medical Officer, Private Hospital “Barmherzige Brüder” and University Hospital Graz, Austria, 1992-1995
Registrar (Clinical assistant), Stellenbosch University Hospital Tygerberg, Department of Internal Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa, 1996-2001
Clinical Research Fellow, Division of Infection, Inflammation & Repair, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK, 2001-2009
Honorary Consultant Physician in Medicine & Respiratory Medicine, Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK, 2009-present
Visiting Scientist and Scholar, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, US, 2010-2011
MRC Clinician Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK 2010 - 2014
Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK 2011 - 2014
Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine & Clinician Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK 2014-present
