Univ.-Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gustorff is head of the department for anesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine at the Ottakring Clinic (formerly Wilhelminenspital) in Vienna. He has been active in pain therapy and pain research for over 20 years. The focus is on neuropathic pain, pain diagnosis using QST and invasive pain therapy. He has a lot of experience in postgraduate education and university teaching and is considered to be a mediator between the current state of research and clinical practice.