Andreas Kopf studied medicine at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Arkansas. Since 1995 he is a specialist in anaesthesiology, adding further specializations in emergency medicine and surgical intensive care (1996), special pain medicine (1997) and palliative medicine (2007).
In addition to his current position as chair of the Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine, including a centre for PostCOVID-patients, Dr. Kopf is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Medical Physiology at the University of Nairobi. He is the teaching supervisor for Pain Medicine and Palliative Medicine in the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Dr. Kopf also serves in the educational committee of the European Pain Federation, the German Pain Society and the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. He is in the advice committee for the reform of medical studies, with emphasis on the integration of spiritual care in the German medical school curricula. In addition, he is serving in the ethic advice committee of the Charité and leads bilateral pain projects in Kenya and in the Ukraine.