German Society for Neurosurgery
German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC) |
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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 :
- Intensive Care Medicine and Neurotraumatology ,
- Microneurosurgery and neuroanatomy ,
- Intracranial pressure , cerebral blood flow and hydrocephalus ,
- Spine ,
- Neuro-oncology ,
- Pediatric neurosurgery,
- Neurophysiology ,
- Pain ,
- Neurorehabilitation ,
- Vascular neurosurgery,
- Endoscopic neurosurgery,
- Peripheral nerves ,
- Stereotaxic and radiosurgery .
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:
- 1948: Nicolai Guleke , Karl Kleist
- 1950: Max Nun , Robert Janker
- 1951: Fritz König
- 1952: Egas Moniz , Gian Maria Fasano , Heinrich Pette
- 1954: Robert Wartenberg , Leopold Schönbauer
- 1957: Rudolf Stich , Gottfried Ewald
- 1958: Alexander Stieda
- 1964: Henning Brütt
- 1969: Arist Stender , Hans Hellner , Alfonso Asenjo
- 1970: John Eugene Anthony O'Connell
- 1971: Keiji Sano
- 1981: Joachim Gerlach
- 1987: Fritz Heppner
- 1990: Jean Brihaye , Willem Luyendijk , H.-Alfons Walder
- 1997: Rolf Wüllenweber
- 2004: Ludwig G. Kempe
- 2005: Philippe Decq , Margareta Klinger
- 2007: Masashi Fukui
- 2008: Kintomo Takakura , Dietrich Tönnis
- 2012: Gerhard Lausberg
- 2013: Michael Krämer
- 2014: Hans Assmus
- 2015: Volker Sonntag , Robert F. Spetzler
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
- ↑ Honorary Members. In: dgnc.de. German Society for Neurosurgery, accessed April 16, 2020 .