Dietrich Grönemeyer

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Dietrich Herbert Wilhelm Grönemeyer (born November 12, 1952 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld ) is a German doctor , medical entrepreneur , author and charitable donor . Until 2012 he held the chair for radiology and microtherapy at the University of Witten / Herdecke and is considered the "father of microtherapy".

Life

Grönemeyer was born in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1952 and grew up with his brothers Herbert (* 1956, musician and actor) and Wilhelm (1954–1998, gallery owner) in Bochum , where he attended high school on Ostring . His father was the mining engineer Wilhelm Grönemeyer (1916–2003), his mother the nurse Hella Carin, born from Hunnius, a descendant of the physician Carl Abraham Hunnius, who came from a family of doctors in the Baltic States .

Grönemeyer did his Abitur in 1972 at the humanistic high school in Bochum. From 1974 to 1976 he studied Romance and Sinology at the University of Bochum , 1976-1982 medicine at the University of Kiel , where he in 1981 with the theme of Quantitative blood flow determination using digital X-ray image processing model and animal studies Ph.D. has been. He then became an assistant doctor for radiology in Kiel and Witten.

His habilitation followed in 1990 at the University of Witten / Herdecke. Until his retirement in 2012 , Grönemeyer held the chair for radiology and the world's only chair for microtherapy. He heads the Grönemeyer Institute for Microtherapy in Bochum. On September 1, 2013, he was appointed professor of health economics on the University Council of Steinbeis University Berlin and is head of the Steinbeis Transfer Institute for Microtherapy, Minimally Invasive Therapy and Diagnostics at the Bochum site.

Since 2006 Grönemeyer has been chairman of the Ruhr Science Forum and representative of the forum in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Board of Trustees of the Donors' Association for German Science.

Grönemeyer was married to Christa Enste from 1977 until the divorce in 2018. The couple has three children.

Act

Dietrich Grönemeyer giving a lecture at the International German Gymnastics Festival

medicine

Grönemeyer particularly represents what he calls microtherapy . This is the combination of interventional radiology, minimally invasive surgery and pain therapy. Areas of application for this form of diagnosis and therapy are in particular the spine and joints, blood vessels and cancer. In addition to the development of biomedical procedures, Grönemeyer represents a holistic concept of medicine, under which he combines both classic biomedical procedures (high-tech medicine) and forms of therapy from the field of naturopathy and other cultures (e.g. traditional Chinese medicine , herbal medicine , Manual forms of therapy ) as well as person-oriented medicine that perceives people in their psychological and intellectual properties as well as their social and cultural references.

In the past, Grönemeyer's medical approaches have received controversial reviews. In 2006, Otmar Wiestler , long-time director of the German Cancer Research Center , and Michael Bamberg , then President of the German Cancer Society, described some of Grönemeyer's ideas as "scientifically unsustainable" and took the view that it aroused "unjustified hopes".

Due to the merging and further development of interventional radiology , endoscopy and pain therapy - especially in the treatment of back diseases - Grönemeyer is considered the "father of microtherapy". He introduced the process as a worldwide pioneer in 1987. The introduction of the open magnetic resonance tomograph for surgery followed in 1988. In the same year, the implementation of pain treatments and tumor operations in the open magnetic resonance tomograph began. In 1989 the laser was used for CT-guided tumor therapy. The introduction of the catheter-free representation of the coronary arteries was done by ultrafast computed tomography in Europe in 1991 and the world's first CT / MRI-guided endoscopy of the knee and hip joint, spinal cord and brain 1992. In 2002, the term "micro-therapy" in the medical dictionary Pschyrembel added .

Dietrich Grönemeyer's professional career includes various stations at home and abroad. This was accompanied by research stays at the University of California in San Francisco (1988) and frequent guest professorships, including at the Harvard Medical School in Boston (1996). He worked for two years (2001 to 2003) as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC .

Dietrich Grönemeyer (since 2006) jointly with Görge Deerberg (since 2012) at the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT chairman of the Science Forum Ruhr . The Science Forum Ruhr is an association of research institutions in the Ruhr area founded in 2004, in which contacts between the scientific institutions and with universities, politics, business and administration as well as the dialogue between science and the public are to be promoted. The Ruhr Science Forum has a total of 45 research institutions (as of 2015). These include well-known institutions such as u. a. the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, the Grönemeyer Institute for Microtherapy, the Fraunhofer Institutes IML, ISST and UMSICHT or the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and for Molecular Physiology. The Ruhr Science Forum supports research collaborations and projects between the member institutes, including the UMSICHT science award. Grönemeyer is the patron of the UMSICHT science award. The award is given to honor the outstanding communication of scientific results to a broad public. The prize is awarded in the categories science and journalism; it is intended to promote the dialogue between science and society on current issues in environmental, process and energy technology.

publication

In addition to his three academic works, Grönemeyer wrote numerous scientific articles and books, most of which relate to radiological and cardiological diagnostics, minimally invasive therapy and microtherapy. He has also published a large number of articles and book chapters in medical, technical and political journals.

He also published popular science articles, particularly on health and well-being, with which he participated in the general discussion of values. This is also what the “One World Now” initiative refers to, which advocates the peaceful coexistence of different cultures and religions. Last but not least, he repeatedly took a position on questions of health economics and health policy .

With the invention of the character The Little Medic , which is aimed at children between the ages of six and 14, Grönemeyer intended to expand the non-fiction character in the health sector with science fiction and novel elements as well as illustrations and photographs. The book series with Erwin and Rosi, which is aimed at children between the ages of three and six, pursues the same goal .

Since October 2012 Grönemeyer has been on the ZDF program Dietrich Grönemeyer - Life is more! to see. The program deals with ethical issues and is broadcast on the Christian holidays of Good Friday , Ascension Day , Reformation Day , Repentance and Prayer Day . The focus is on people who are treading or have tread an unusual path in life.

Health policy

In his statements, Grönemeyer primarily addressed the future of medicine in the area of ​​tension between technical possibilities and benefits for patients. So he suggested u. a. the award “med. in Germany "as a seal of quality for German medicine and analogously to" med. in Europe ". He pleaded for a new medicine in which high-tech medicine, humanity and ecology form a unity. He is also committed to strengthening and expanding existing medical resources, for example in telemedicine or medical technology, as well as improving the networking of existing skills. In the “health economy” he emphasizes the possibilities of medicine and the thematically linked industries as a growth engine. In this context he criticizes health reforms and opposes the austerity efforts of the politicians.

At the same time, he is primarily committed to the holistic, human and attentive perception of body, soul and spirit for the benefit of the patient, which he describes as “speaking and listening” or “loving medicine” for short, and combines this with an appeal for the closer cooperation of the most diverse medical disciplines and a renewal of the doctor-patient relationship. By this he understands both the question of the position of the patient in modern medicine and the strengthening of the position of the family doctor , who in his ideas is involved in lifelong accompaniment of the patient. A general practitioner should primarily coordinate preventive care and take on a key role as a guide in treatment issues.

After all, Grönemeyer wishes prevention and understanding of one's own body from childhood. He advocates health education in schools and calls for one hour of school sports every day to encourage the desire for exercise and prevention. To this end, he developed an exercise program with 40 exercises for 20 minutes, and in 2015 his foundation initiated “The Moving School Break” with a shoe manufacturer.

Memberships, foundations

In 1995, Grönemeyer became a founding member of the Essen Cardiovascular Center and, in 1998, a member of the advisory board of the state initiative Health Care NRW. In 2000 he became a member of the National Geographic Society and in 2003 board member of the Verein pro Ruhrgebiet.

In May 2007 he founded the Dietrich Grönemeyer Foundation . It aims at prevention by promoting healthy lifestyle and health awareness among children and adolescents. She advocates health education in schools and trains students to become “health ambassadors”. It sees itself as a “foundation for world medicine” and a platform for “saving the world cultural heritage medicine”.

Others

Around 1991/92 Grönemeyer played a role in the "script affair" of the NRW Minister of Health Hermann Heinemann , at the beginning of which a funding of 26 million DM in favor of the "Development and Research Center for Microtherapy" (EFMT) by Dietrich Grönemeyer and Rainer Seibel was standing. Because doubts arose later about the factual reasons for the funding, an investigative committee of the state parliament was formed. Since Minister Heinemann had his ministry compile a catalog with possible questions and suitable answers and, in some cases, members of the investigative committee of his party ( SPD ) were also used, the process was given the name “script affair”.

Awards

In October 2000, the association pro Ruhr area recognized Grönemeyer as a citizen of the Ruhr area . In October 2003 he received the World Future Award .

Fonts

  • with Rainer M. Seibel: Interventional Computed Tomography. Textbook and atlas on interventional surgical techniques and pain therapy. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-89412-061-4 .
  • with his daughter Friederike Grönemeyer: Self-healing with herbs, Becker Joest Verlag, Hilden 2019, ISBN 978-3-95453-163-9
  • with Robert B. Lufkin: Open Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-540-63781-8 .
  • World medicine: on the way to a holistic art of healing . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-027306-2 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dietrich Grönemeyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ firma-24.de: Dietrich-Grönemeyer-Stiftung
  2. ↑ unternehmendb.com: Dietrich-Grönemeyer-Stiftung ( Memento from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Entry Grönemeyer, Dietrich in Munzinger - Internationales Biographisches Archiv.
  4. ^ Dietrich Grönemeyer: Doctor with heart and soul. A personal reading book. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-596-19408-7 , p. 19 f. ( Reading sample )
  5. ↑ Barbara Schmid, Udo Ludwig: Professor Hokuspokus. In: Der Spiegel . October 23, 2016, accessed April 18, 2017 .
  6. ^ Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr: Board of Directors , accessed on December 5, 2016
  7. ↑ Zukunftschance Weltgesundheitsland In: Zukunftschance Weltgesundheit
  8. ↑ a b health economy. The future in Germany. Reading sample. ABW Wisschenschaftsverlag, 2004, pp. 16–24 , accessed on April 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Core Values ​​for the Future of Healthcare. In: Joachim Galuska : The future of medicine (2001), Basic values ​​for the future of the health system: Contributions to the conference on March 16, 2001 in the Heiligenfeld / Bad Kissingen specialist clinic. BIS Verlag, ISBN 3-8142-0801-3 .
  10. ^ Winfried Hammelmann, Sven Northeim: The self-service republic . Profiles: Our scandal politicians and their affairs. Vito von Eichborn GmbH & Co. Verlag AG, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8218-1189-7 , Hermann Heinemann: How do you prepare for an investigative committee ?, p. 65 .
  11. ↑ Prof. Dietrich Grönemeyer is the winner of the World Future Award 2003. buchmarkt.de, October 21, 2003, accessed on April 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Grönemeyer, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grönemeyer, Dietrich HW; Grönemeyer, Dietrich Herbert Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and co-founder of microtherapy
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal-Zellerfeld