Judith Haschka is currently Research Group Leader at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology in Vienna, Austria. She is specialist for internal medicine and rheumatology at the 1st Medical Department of the Hanusch Hospital Vienna. She received her medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna. She performed her clinical training at Barmherzige Schwestern Hospital Vienna, Austria, and the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. She has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, is a lector at the Doctoral Programme of Applied Medical Science (N790) at the Medical University Vienna and a board member of the Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research and BioReg, the Austrian Biologicals-registry for inflammatory rheumatic diseases. From 2008 ongoing she works in bone research focusing on secondary osteoporosis in chronic inflammatory diseases, bone imaging techniques, biomarker identification and rare bone diseases.

Education

• 2019: Specialist in Rheumatology
• 2017: Specialist in Internal Medicine
• 2012 – 2019: Residency, Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Barmherzige Schwestern Hospital Vienna, Medical Department 2 and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Medical Department 3, Erlangen, Germany
• 2010 – 2012: Internship, Barmherzige Schwestern Hospital Vienna
• 2001 – 2008: Studies in Human Medicine, Medical University Vienna

Employment

• 2024 – present: Research Group Leader at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Osteology, Vienna
• 2020 – present: Specialist for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Hanusch Hospital Vienna, 1st Medical Department
• 2018 – present: Specialist for Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Rheuma-Zentrum Wien-Oberlaa GmbH, Karl Landsteiner Institut for Osteology and Rheumatology
• 2017 – present: Lector Medical University Vienna, N790
• 2020 – 2024: Senior Scientist, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut of Osteology
• 2012 – 2019: Barmherzige Schwestern Hospital Vienna, Austria, and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• 2010 – 2012: Barmherzige Schwestern Hospital Vienna, Austria
• 2009 – 2010: Study Coordinator, Vinforce Study Group, Barmherzige Schwestern Hospital Vienna, Austria

Board Memberships

• Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research
• BioReg

Professional Societies

• Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research
• Austrian Society for Rheumatology
• Austrian Society for Internal Medicine

Certificates

• Osteologist DVO

Selected Publications

• Identification of circulating microRNA patterns in patients in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
  Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023 Oct 3;62(10):3448-3458.
  Haschka J, Simon D, Bayat S, Messner Z, Kampylafka E, Fagni F, Skalicky S, Hackl M, Resch H, Zwerina J, Kleyer A, Cavallaro A, Sticherling M, Schett G, Kocijan R, Rech J.
• Fractal-Based Analysis of Bone Microstructure in Crohn’s Disease: A Pilot Study.
  J Clin Med. 2020 Dec; 9(12): 4116.
  Haschka J, Kraus DA, Behanova M, Huber S, Bartko J, Schanda JE, Meier P, Bahrami A, Zandieh S, Zwerina J, Kocijan R.
• Cortical bone loss is an early feature of nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis.
  Arthritis Res Ther. 2018 Aug 30;20(1):202.
  Neumann A & Haschka J*, Kleyer A, Schuster L, Englbrecht M, Berlin A, Figueiredo CP, Simon D, Muschitz C, Kocijan R, Resch H, Rech J, Schett G.
  *contributed equally
• High-resolution quantitative computed tomography demonstrates structural defects in cortical and trabecular bone in IBD patients.
  Haschka J, Hirschmann S, Kleyer A, Englbrecht M, Faustini F, Simon D, Figueiredo CP, Schuster L, Muschitz C, Kocijan R, Resch H, Atreya R, Rech J, Neurath MF, Schett G.
  J Crohns Colitis. 2016 May;10(5):532-40.
• Relapse rates in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in stable remission tapering or stopping antirheumatic therapy: interim results from the prospective randomised controlled RETRO study.
  Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Jan;75(1):45-51.
  Haschka J, Englbrecht M, Hueber AJ, Manger B, Kleyer A, Reiser M, Finzel S, Tony HP, Kleinert S, Feuchtenberger M, Fleck M, Manger K, Ochs W, Schmitt-Haendle M, Wendler J, Schuch F, Ronneberger M, Lorenz HM, Nuesslein H, Alten R, Demary W, Henes J, Schett G, Rech J.