SGAM honorary award to Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Gerlach awarded

20.06.2016 09:20

At the 25th annual congress of the Saxon Society for General Medicine (SGAM) in Lichtenwalde, Prof. Ferdinand Gerlach (pictured) was awarded their honorary award.

Prof. Gerlach received the honorary award in recognition of his achievements in general medicine and the future of medical care in Germany. In his keynote speech, Gerlach analyzed the current German supply landscape against the background of demographic developments and derived urgently needed structural changes from this.

“The dramatic changes that are already emerging cannot be solved using the means of the past,” appealed Prof. Gerlach to the Saxon medical profession, corporations and politicians. Instead, courage to change is needed. “Waiting is not an option,” says Ferdinand Gerlach.

Prof. Dr. med. Ferdinand M. Gerlach is President of the German Society for General Medicine and Family Medicine, Chairman of the Expert Council for the Assessment of Developments in the Health Care System and Director of the Institute for General Medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.