Marburg hematologist Andreas Neubauer takes over DGIM chairmanship
23.05.2023 13:56
The internist, hematologist and oncologist Professor Dr. med. Andreas Neubauer is the new chairman of the board of the German Society for Internal Medicine. V. (DGIM). In this role, he organized the 130th Internal Medicine Congress as Congress President, which took place in Wiesbaden from April 13th to 16th, 2024. For the DGIM annual meeting, the director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine and Hematology, Oncology, Immunology at the University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg chose the motto “Precision Medicine – Wishes and Realities”.
With Neubauer, an internationally recognized cancer researcher is taking over the leadership of Europe's largest medical-scientific society. He is the successor to Professor Dr. med. Ulf Müller-Ladner, who is now the first deputy chairman of the DGIM.
Being able to tailor a therapy to a patient's individual disease-specific treatment needs has long been a great wish, not just of doctors. “Precision medicine is something we all want – both those treating us and our patients,” says Professor Dr. med. Andreas Neubauer. “Some internal medicine areas such as oncology already offer this precision medicine in specialized centers. We will discuss intensively in the DGIM in the next 12 months to what extent desire and reality correspond today in relation to the entire internal medicine,” said the new DGIM chairman on the motto of the 130th Internal Medicine Congress. With the other key topics, he takes a look at the status quo of internal medicine and the healthcare system in Germany. “We will address crises in internal medicine – the nursing crisis, the climate crisis, the effects of wars – as well as the topics of “mistakes in internal medicine”, “research in internal medicine” or the question of a fair allocation of financial resources,” he says Marburg internist.
Internationally renowned cancer researcher
Andreas Neubauer studied medicine in Berlin and Hamburg from 1976 to 1983, where he also received his doctorate in 1984. He completed his specialist training in Berlin from 1983 onwards. The further training was interrupted by two DFG-financed research stays: in 1985 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, and in 1988 he completed a two-year postdoctoral research stay at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. In 1992, Neubauer completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin and then worked as a senior physician in hematology and oncology at the Charlottenburg Clinic. Appointed to a C3 professorship at the Technical University of Dresden in 1996, he moved to the Philipps University of Marburg in 1999, where he also took over the management of the Clinic for Internal Medicine and Hematology, Oncology and Immunology.
The 65-year-old is a member of the Leopoldina and numerous national and international scientific associations. In the DGIM, he is, among other things, co-chair of the health and climate working group. Neubauer, whose scientific focus is on myeloid leukemia and the connections between bacterial infections of the stomach and lymphomas, has received numerous awards and honors, including the Behring X-ray Research Medal and the Wilhelm Warner Prize for Cancer Research. An important concern for him is strengthening clinical research in Germany.
Personnel changes on the DGIM board
The DGIM general meeting took place as part of the 129th Internal Medicine Congress. Professor Dr. med Ulf Müller-Ladner, Chairman of the DGIM 2022/2023, moved into the office of 1st Deputy Chairman in accordance with the statutes. The new second deputy chairman is Professor Dr. med. Jan Galle from Lüdenscheid. The general meeting also elected Professor Dr. med. Dagmar Führer-Sakel, director of the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism at the University Hospital Essen, is a new member of the board. Professor Dr. was re-elected as Secretary General of the DGIM. med. Georg Ertl, internist and cardiologist from Würzburg.