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Professional life

since 2001 Professor for Social Medicine and Public Health at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg

Teaching assignment at the Medical Faculty, University of Regensburg

Medical Doctor, specialist for Internal Medicine; degrees in in Public Health, Social Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Emergency Medicine

1983-1991 resident physician, various posts

2000-2001 Consultant for health planning with Senator für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend und Soziales in Bremen

1997-2001 Teaching assignment for quality management of health and social services´, University of Bremen

1996-2000 Director of the Task Force for the Development of Concepts for the Surveillance of the Non-medical Health Professions, Municipal Health Authority Bremen

1991-1996 CEO of the Municipal Health Authority Bremen-Nord

1982-1991 House Medical Officer in the following hospitals and clinics:
Kreiskrankenhaus Grevenbroich, Department for Internal Medicine; Klinik Roderbirken, Clinic for Cardiology; Marienhospital Düsseldorf, Department for Radiology and Oncology; St. Marien-Krankenhaus Ratingen, Department for Internal Medicine; der LVA Rheinprovinz (Herz-Kreislauf-Rehabilitation), Kreiskrankenhaus Grevenbroich

1998 EFQM-Assessor

1997 Specialist for Public Health

1997 Specialist for Environmental Medicine

1998 Specialist for Social Medicine

1990 Internal Medicine

Boards, Committees

since January 2009 National Cancer Plan, Speaker of the working group "high quality information for cancer patients"; since September 2009 Member of the Steering Group

since 2008 Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF), delegate for the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention and for the German Network for Evidence Based Medicine

since 2007 Expert panel for drug evaluation of the Stiftung Warentest (Consumer Association)

since 2006 scientific advisory board for the model project "Independent Consumer and Health Advisory Servive" UPD (Social Security Code § 65 b)

1994-1996 und 2000-2001 Committee for Quality Assurance, Chamber of Physicians, Bremen Bremen

1991-1996 Committee on Health and Environment, German Medical Association

1991-1996 Chairman of the Committee of Health and Environment, Chamber of Physicians, Bremen Bremen

1991-1998 Elected member of the Bremen Chamber of Physicians Assembly

Delegate to the Federal Assembly of Physicians 1986-1990, 1992, 1994, 1996

1985-1991 Elected member of the Northrhine Chamber of Physicians, AIDS Committee, Hospital Committee

1984-1991 Municipal Hospital Committee of the Citizens' Council of Düsseldorf

Memberships

German Network for Evidence Based Medicine - DNEbM
President 2009-2011
since 2007 executive board
2005-2009 Speaker of the Department Patient Information and Patient Involvement

German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention - DGSMP
since 2007 executive board

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin (DEGAM)

Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften - GWUP

Transparency International Arbeitsgruppe Gesundheitswesen

Mein Essen zahl ich selbst - MEZIS

No free lunch We are health care providers who believe that pharmaceutical promotion should not guide clinical practice. Our mission is to encourage health care providers to practice medicine on the basis of scientific evidence rather than on the basis of pharmaceutical promotion. (...) Our goal is improved patient care.

Healthy Skepticism Healthy Skepticism aims to improve health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialarbeit

Deutsche Vereinigung für Sozialarbeit im Gesundheitswesen



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