Dr. Knud Gastmeier received his doctorate in medicine from the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1985 and was awarded the Robert Koch Prize of the Humboldt-Universität in the same year. After years at the Potsdam district hospital, he settled in Potsdam in 1992 as a specialist in anesthesiology and pain therapist (focus on cancer pain).
In addition to his membership in the Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, he is President of the Interdisciplinary Work Group Brandenburg Pain Relief and since 2017 Deputy Speaker of the Ad-hoc Commission “Cannabis in Medicine” of the German Pain Society e.V.