German Society for Neurosurgery

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German Society for Neurosurgery
(DGNC)
purpose Medical Society for Neurosurgery
Chair: Volker Tronnier
Establishment date: 1950
Seat : Jena
Website: dgnc.de

The German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC) is the German scientific medical society in the field of neurosurgery . She is a member of the Working Group of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF).

President of the DGNC is Volker Tronnier, Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Lübeck campus. The company maintains an office in Jena , which is also where it has its statutory seat.

Wilhelm Tönnis founded the German Society for Neurosurgery in Bonn in 1950 after his plans for this were prevented in 1939 by the beginning of the Second World War.

Sections and Commissions

The company operates (as of 2013) the following sections :

In addition, the society organizes the following commissions: Diagnosis Related Groups , International Relations, Quality Assurance, Technical Standards and Norms as well as the functional areas: Publication of conference reports, Ethics and Law, Statutory Questions and the Scientific Program of the Annual Conference (as of 2019).

Awards

The association awards the Fedor Krause Medal (since 1951), the Otfrid Foerster Medal (since 1954) and the Wilhelm Tönnis Medal (since 1989). All three honors are also associated with an honorary membership. In addition to the winners of these medals, the Society has awarded honorary membership to the following personalities:

Web links

literature

  • Hans Arnold, Wolfgang Bock, Karl-August Bushe , Hartmut Collmann and others (eds.): Neurosurgery in Germany: Past and present. 50 years of the German Society for Neurosurgery. Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, Vienna et al. 2001, ISBN 3-89412-482-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. Honorary Members. In: dgnc.de. German Society for Neurosurgery, accessed April 16, 2020 .