Achim Kautz

Education: Achim Kautz has a degree in Communication Sciences (IHK, KdA) Current Academic or Administrative Positions: CEO of Kautz5 gUG – a non-profit project and consulting company in the health sector. At the heart of our work is the patient with all their needs and concerns. Our goal is to improve their medical care structures and quality of life in a sustainable and long-term manner. Area of Research interests: He has a long-standing expertise in advocacy with a special interest in translating chronic diseases (liver, metabolic) into a language that allows policy discussion with key decision makers in different health care settings (local, national, regional, and global). Publications and Presentations: Author/co-author of many papers in peer-reviewed international and national journals. In his career he held 100dreds of presentations and meetings with representatives of governments, politicians, and health care decision makers. Comments: Achim Kautz has been CEO of the German Liver Help Association, a co-founder of the European Liver Patient Association (ELPA), a co-founder of the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), a member of the national strategy planning group of the WHO, involved in 6 WHO resolutions. He is a member of the advisory committee of the German MoH for viral hepatitis and a member of the expert committee of the joint committee (GBA) in Germany. He is involved in several national and international patient centric research projects in the field of MASH, HCC and PBC. Achim Kautz is a co-author of several guidelines in the field of liver diseases. He is co-initiator and member of the operating committee of ILCM.