Frank Ulrich Montgomery

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Frank Ulrich Montgomery (2019)

Frank Ulrich Montgomery (born May 31, 1952 in Hamburg ) is a German radiologist . From 1989 to 2007 he held the office of First Chairman of the Federal Board of the Marburger Bund Doctors' Union , of which he has been Honorary Chairman since 2007. Also in 2007 he was appointed Vice President of the German Medical Association. From 2011 to 2019 he was its president. At the 122nd German Medical Congress in Münster in 2019, he was appointed Honorary President of the German Medical Association and the German Medical Association. On April 16, 2015, the board of having the World Medical Association (World Medical Association, WMA) Montgomery elected deputy chairman. In July 2017, he succeeded Hermann Stefan Keller as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank, of which he has been a member since 2011. Montgomery was unanimously elected chairman of the board for two years at the meeting of the board of the World Medical Association on April 25, 2019 in Santiago de Chile . Since 2019, Montgomery has also been president of the "Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) in Brussels, which opposes the European medical associations represents the European institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Career

Montgomery's father was a British officer who had come to Germany in the aftermath of World War II , his mother a German doctor. Montgomery lives in Hamburg. He is married to a doctor and has two children.

After studying medicine in Hamburg and Sydney , he received his 1979 approval as a doctor and was in the same year with a thesis on "Significance of pancreatic angiography in the diagnosis of pancreatic diseases" at Hamburg University doctorate . He has been a specialist in radiology since 1986 .

From 1983 to 2016 he was chairman of the regional association of the Marburger Bund in Hamburg. From 1987 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2019 he was a member of the board of directors of the German Medical Association, including President from 2011 to 2019. From 1994 to 2002 and from 2006 to 2018 he was President of the Hamburg Medical Association . Today he is honorary president of the German Medical Association and the Hamburg Medical Association.

Until the end of 2018, Montgomery worked as a senior physician at the Radiological Clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf . In 2012 he was awarded the honorary title of professor by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg . This is to honor his commitment in the field of health and social policy, science and medical ethics. In 2013 he was awarded the Dr. Günther Buch Prize for Medicine from the Johanna and Fritz Buch Memorial Foundation.

Montgomery, who has also established a connection to the Israeli Medical Association, received the Josef Neuberger Medal from the Jewish Community of Düsseldorf in 2019 for his work in coming to terms with the Nazi past of the German medical profession .

Positions

As chairman of the Marburger Bund, Montgomery was committed to an independent collective agreement for salaried doctors. In 2005 he succeeded in enforcing an independent collective agreement that was opposed by the Ver.di union and public employers. For this purpose, Montgomery organized the largest medical strikes in German history between 2004 and 2006. Montgomery was also the first human rights commissioner for the German Medical Association. In 2001 he advocated the ban on pre-implantation diagnosis (PGD). In 2002, Montgomery spoke out against the compulsory use of emetics to secure evidence , as this resulted in deaths under medical influence in Bremen and Hamburg and instead advocated the administration of laxatives . He advocated compulsory measles vaccination . Montgomery is also committed to banning euthanasia or medically-assisted suicide. He worked as chairman of the "Committee on fundamental medical and legal issues" on the guidelines for terminal care of the German Medical Association. In May 2020, he spoke out in favor of a compulsory corona vaccination, provided that one day there was a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 .

criticism

As Vice President of the German Medical Association, Montgomery received criticism in 2009 for his comments on a bribery scandal. Around 3000 doctors had received money or gifts for prescribing Ratiopharm products and the Ulm public prosecutor was investigating suspected fraud and breach of trust. In June 2012, the Federal Court of Justice ruled that contract doctors cannot be prosecuted for bribery under the Criminal Code . Montgomery said that the court had “gone a very good way”. According to Section 32 of the professional code of conduct for doctors in Germany, however, the acceptance of money and gifts is a clear violation and not permitted. He described the business practices of doctors with Ratiopharm before this Background as “a completely normal, natural behavior” and added: “You can't ask people that if something is not punishable, that they simply don't do it, even if the health insurances save on it. "

In January 2013, Montgomery responded negatively to political calls for a legal criminal offense for bribery of professional, general practitioners. “We reject a legal regulation if it is made as a lex specialis against doctors. We would not, however, defend ourselves against a paragraph that applies to all freelancers - including architects, lawyers or journalists. Rather, he called for a 'sharpening of investigative competencies' of the medical associations and an 'improvement of the criminal framework' in professional law ”.

During the COVID-19 pandemic , he said that wearing scarves or kerchiefs for mouth and nose protection was ridiculous. He stressed that the state could not require the wearing of self-made masks with dubious protection and penalize violations with fines if at the same time it was not in a position to provide the population with sufficiently qualified masks. The doctor and medical journalist of the STERN Bernhard Albrecht accused Montgomery of understanding little "of the complex mask science" and having "an army of scientists against them who have reviewed the study situation and discussed it for a long time." In the meantime, Montgomery described his earlier assessment in an interview as a scientific error and advocated fines for conscious refusal to wear a mask.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Montgomery new medical president. (No longer available online.) In: apotheke-adhoc.de. Archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Press release of the German Medical Association on Bundesaerztekammer.de ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 2, 2011)
  3. ↑ World Medical Association selects Montgomery Chief Executive Officer , Press Release German Medical Association , April 29, 2019. Accessed April 30 of 2019.
  4. ^ Proof of the dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Uwe Groenewold: Bye, Prof. Dr. Frank Ulrich Montgomery. In: uke.de . January 30, 2019, accessed June 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Doctors newspaper: Honorary title: Montgomery now 'Professor'. In: aerztezeitung.de. September 2, 2012, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Elke Bartholomäus: Names and Messages . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 110 , no. 18 . Deutscher Ärzteverlag , May 3, 2013, p. A-891 / B-777 / C-773 .
  8. ↑ Elke Bartholomäus: Prof. Dr. med. Frank Ulrich Montgomery. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 117, No. 1–2, January 6, 2020, p. B 33.
  9. ↑ U. Montgomery: War of the Doctors. The government is planning an ethical revolution. In: FAZ , February 22, 2001.
  10. ↑ Sandra Wilsdorf: The mildest torture. Die Tageszeitung , January 10, 2002, accessed on May 24, 2016 .
  11. ↑ montgomery.de: Compulsory measles vaccination is an important step at the right time
  12. ↑ World Medical President speaks out in favor of compulsory corona vaccination . In: MSN , May 20, 2020, accessed on May 20, 2020.
  13. ↑ BGH, decision of July 20, 2011 - Az. 5 StR 115/11.
  14. ↑ hil / aerzteblatt.de: BGH judgment does not mean a license for doctors. In: aerzteblatt.de . June 25, 2012, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  15. ↑ (Sample) professional code for doctors working in Germany in the version of the resolutions of the 121st German Medical Association 2018 in Erfurt, amended by resolution of the board of the German Medical Association on December 14, 2018 (pdf, p. 9)
  16. ^ Federal Medical Association - Montgomery calls for better investigative skills and higher penalties. (No longer available online.) In: bundesaerztekammer.de. February 2010, archived from the original on February 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Lucia Schmidt: Not only medical students can wear masks. In: FAZ online. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 23, 2020, accessed on April 26, 2020 .
  18. ↑ stern.de: Mask requirement - Why an awareness campaign is now necessary ( comment )
  19. ↑ World Medical Association on the Corona Pandemic - "We are in a permanent wave". Retrieved on August 6, 2020 (German).
predecessor Office successor
Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe President of the German Medical Association
2011–2019 		Klaus Reinhardt
personal data
SURNAME Montgomery, Frank Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radiologist, President of the German Medical Association
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg