Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Uwe Simon new President of the MHB
14.09.2021 11:25
Prof. Dr. med. dr hc mult. Hans-Uwe Simon (63) took office on September 1, 2021 as the successor to Prof. Dr. Edmund. A. Neugebauer (71), who no longer ran for office after 5 years of successful work. Like Prof. Neugebauer, Prof. Simon will also take on the office of scientific director in addition to the office of president, while Neugebauer will remain at the MHB in the role of senior professor for health services research. Prof. Simon was already elected as his successor by the Senate of the MHB last December following a proposal by the selection committee.
“I have used the past eight months to deal intensively with MHB and the tasks ahead of me. As I know from numerous conversations with employees and the current Executive Board, I can rely on a committed and professional team that will support me with their hearts, hands and brains in tackling the next steps and challenges that lie ahead. I would like to thank them for that,” says Prof. Simon.
The MHB was founded and built with a lot of courage and pioneering spirit: “I admire this pioneering spirit, and I would like to use all my experience, strength and passion to ensure that the MHB continues to develop very well. Practical, science-based, innovative and high-quality teaching in medicine and psychology must remain our most important focus. “In addition, we want to consistently pursue the path we have taken in research and not only continue to improve here, but also make offers to society,” the new president looks to the future and also names another important challenge: “The upcoming accreditation by the Science Council requires our full attention and concentration in the coming months. The academic and financial future of the MHB will largely depend on the results of this examination,” continued Prof. Simon.
“We are very pleased that we have been able to win Prof. Simon, a candidate who is very experienced in research, teaching and university management, for the office of president. Prof. Simon has many years of experience in academic, responsible leadership positions, is an experimental and clinical researcher through and through and has built up interdisciplinary research structures and scientific networks within Switzerland and internationally. “He is president of the renowned Novartis Foundation, chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Helmholtz Institute for Environmental Research in Leipzig and a member of the National German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as well as other renowned research societies,” says Gabriele Wolter, managing director of the Brandenburg an der Havel University Hospital and chairwoman of the The search committee was already set up in the summer of 2020, in which, in addition to shareholders, clinicians, professors and students were also represented.