MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ

The medical university of graz (med uni graz) is a medical university in austria that has been in existence since 1 January 2004, and has been a part of the karl-franzens university of graz as a medical faculty since 1863

The present medical university of graz traces its origins back to the former medical faculty of the karl-franzens university of graz, which was founded in 1863 by emperor franz joseph i. Medical education had been provided here as part of a medical-surgical curriculum since 1782. In 1912, the university hospital graz, one of the largest hospitals in europe at the time, was established

Since the enactment of the university act of 2002 on 1 january 2004, the current medical university of graz (as well as the medical university of vienna and the medical university of innsbruck) has become an independent university. The university library of the medical university of graz was previously a part of the university library graz before the separation of the two universities.

The transition of the medical faculty into the medical university took place during the founding convention under the leadership of chairman karlheinz tscheliessnigg, with the election of the first rector, gerhard franz walter. After walter's first term as rector, the medical university was led by the former vice-rector and chairman of the founding convention, tscheliessnigg, from october 2007 to march 2008, until josef smolle was elected as the new rector.

In 2016, hellmut samonigg became rector of the medical university of graz.

Since 2024, andrea kurz, vice-chair for research in the anesthesiology institute at the cleveland clinic, has been rector of the medical university of graz.