Hermann PG Schneider

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Hermann Schneider

Hermann PG Schneider (born August 5, 1934 in Saxony ) is a German medic.

Life

Schneider completed a medical degree in Kiel and Graz from 1956 to 1961 and passed his medical state examination in Kiel in 1961.

From 1963 to 1967 he was a research assistant at the University Women's Clinic in Kiel and from 1967 to 1969 Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Department of Physiology, University of Texas, South Western Medical School, Dallas. Between 1969 and 1970 Schneider was a Research Associate in the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1970 he received the Schoeller Junkmann Prize from the German Society for Endocrinology . Between 1970 and 1975 Schneider was a research assistant and senior physician at the University Women's Clinic in Ulm, Scientific Adviser and Professor and from 1975 to 2000 Director of the University Women's Clinic in Münster.

From 1978 to 1981 he was Executive Board of the International Menopause Society and in 1984 President of the North Rhine-Westphalian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. From 1984 to 1985 Schneider was Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

From 1988 to 1989 Schneider was the publisher of "Gynäkologische Rundschau" and from 1988 to 2000 managing director of the Center for Gynecology at the University of Münster. Between 1992 and 2000 he was director of the State Midwifery School at the University Women's Clinic in Münster.

From 1991 to 1994 Schneider was editor of the "Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie" and from 1994 to 2002 chief editor of "Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie". Since 1992 he has been a member of international advisory boards in obstetrics and gynecology.

From 1993 to 2003 he was Executive Board of the European Menopause and Andropause Society and in 1994 he became an honorary member of the Russian Society for Gynecological Oncology. Between 1995 and 1998 Schneider was President of the German Menopause Society.

In 1996 he was awarded the J. E. Purkyne Medal of the Societas Medicinae Bohemica. Schneider was chairman of the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies of the International Menopause Society from 1996 to 1999 and became a member of the FIGO Expert Advisory Panel on Menopause in 1997. In 1998 he was President of the North Rhine-Westphalian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics.

In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2001 Schneider became an honorary member of the Hungarian Menopause Society. From 2002 to 2005, Schneider was the conference president of the Xth Menopause World Congress in Berlin in 2002 and President of the International Menopause Society. In 2002 he was made an honorary member of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists named him a Fellow ad eundem in 2011.

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