Claudia Kiessling is a medical doctor by training with a Master degree in Public Health and holds the position of chair for Education of Personal and Interpersonal Competencies in Health Care at the Department for Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. She has been involved in medical education since 1999, working in several universities in Germany and Switzerland. Her work experience includes the development and implementation of medical education programmes, assessment, programme evaluation, and faculty development in medical education. Teaching experience includes clinical communication, teamwork, problem based learning, and methodology of scientific working. Her research interests are the development and validation of assessment instruments in the field of clinical communication (SJTs, performance-based assessment) and the evaluation of educational interventions in medical education (actually clinical communication, teamwork, reflective writing, resilience).