German Lung Foundation
The Deutsche Lungenstiftung eV is a German association with the aim of improving the situation of patients with lung diseases and research within pulmonary medicine ( pulmonology ). The registered association based in Lüneburg was founded in 1994 on the initiative of members of the German Society for Pneumology (now the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine ). It is financed exclusively through membership fees, donations and donations. The current statutes are dated November 1st, 1998. The association's office is located in Langenhagen near Hanover.
organization
The board consists since the election of 21 January 2015 replace Harald Morr of the chairman Claus Franz Vogel Meier, his deputy Adrian Gillissen, the treasurer Rolf Niemann and the secretary Thomas OF Wagner. They were elected by the board of trustees for four years in accordance with the statutes and work on a voluntary basis; usually many board members are or have been active in pulmonology. The existing board of trustees is headed by the chairman Gerhard W. Sybrecht (re-elected on January 21, 2015) and the newly elected deputy Tobias Welte. Like the other members, they work on a voluntary basis and are elected for four years. One of the tasks of the board of trustees is to support and discharge the board of directors. Its resolutions are binding for the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 12 of the Articles of Association .
Furthermore, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, the Board of Directors appoints a scientific advisory board whose members also work on a voluntary basis for four years. The advisory board advises the board of directors and the board of trustees in planning and realizing the technical goals; he comments on the submitted applications and projects. Jürgen Fischer is the head of the advisory board.
Focus
The association deals specifically with issues relating to the environment , lungs and breathing . She represents these topics to the professional world and the public. She is the contact person for the media and provides experts on the relevant topics. This is also done against the background that pulmonology, which is responsible for such common diseases as pneumonia , lung cancer , tuberculosis , bronchitis , asthma , COPD , cystic fibrosis , sleep apnea and in general for the consequences of smoking and fine dust pollution , as a subject both to the Universities and the general public are hardly aware of them.
Individual activities
The association acquires funds for applied pneumological research , promotes young scientists with a doctoral award and translates recommendations and guidelines of the scientific society into a layman's language; it also helps spread them. In accordance with its guideline of October 8, 2007, it helps with research projects and academic exchanges through grants and grants for projects and trips. It also promotes the dissemination of pneumological topics in the lay media through the Wilhelm and Ingeborg Roloff Prize for Journalists, which is announced every two years. It is named after the TB researcher Wilhelm Roloff and his wife and, always donated by their four sons, was awarded for the twelfth time on March 15, 2019 at the 60th annual congress of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine in Munich. The coordinator of the jury is the medical journalist Eckart Roloff .
The association carries out prevention projects for adults, children and adolescents, organizes patient congresses, works with the pneumologically-oriented self-help groups and organizations (for example by publishing the white paper on self-help groups in Germany) and offers practical support for regional information events. The writer Peter Härtling supported the foundation on a voluntary basis as an "ambassador" from 2012 until his death in 2017.
The association maintains a free expert advice on the Internet for all those affected by lung and respiratory diseases. It also publishes the members' magazine "Lunge, Luft & Leben" twice a year. The magazine provides information on the diagnosis and therapy of lung and respiratory diseases, prevention measures, education for children and adolescents, as well as its own creative competitions (mostly for schools) and local activities. This is often supported by educational work and CO measurements of the exhaled air. With her “White Book Lung”, which has already been published in four editions, most recently in March 2014, she drew attention to the deficient position of pulmonology in Germany.
donate
The association invests a large part of the incoming donations in research funding for the benefit of lung and respiratory diseases.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ lungenstiftung.de: https://lungenstiftung.de/index.php?id=61&tx_ttnews [tt_news] = 732 & tx_ttnews [backPid] = 5 & cHash = b6699c42e7, accessed on March 25, 2019.
- ↑ Eckart Roloff: The history of the Wilhelm and Ingeborg Roloff Prize of the German Lung Foundation. In: Lunge, Luft & Leben, No. 38 from December 2013, pp. 11-14.