Gerhard Trabert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerhard Trabert (2015)

Gerhard Trabert (born July 3, 1956 in Mainz ) is a German doctor for general medicine / emergency medicine , professor for social medicine / social psychiatry and author . Gerhard Trabert is the founder and 1st chairman of the Association for Poverty and Health in Germany and of the Association for Whispering Post. He is also the owner of G. Trabert Verlag .

Live and act

European Junior Championships 1975

Gerhard Trabert was born in Mainz in 1956 . During his childhood he spent a lot of time in the orphanage where his father worked as an educator. This made him aware of the fate of disadvantaged people early on. Trabert studied social work at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences from 1975 to 1979 (graduation: Diplom-Sozialpädagoge). Before and during his studies he was part of the athletics team of the German junior and student national team. His sporting successes include the silver medal in the 4 x 400 meter run at the European Junior Athletics Championships in 1975 and the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter run at the Universiade 1977. His best time at 800 m, which Trabert set up in 1981 is still represented in the list of the "Eternal Top Ten" of the USC Mainz today . After completing his studies, Trabert worked in the hospital social service. In 1983 he began studying human medicine , which he completed in 1989 at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . During his studies Trabert received a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . With his dissertation “Health situation and medical care for homeless people”, Trabert was awarded a doctorate by the medical faculty of the University of Mainz after completing his studies. med. PhD. Trabert worked clinically for 10 years at hospitals in Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse . His focus was internal medicine , especially the medical and psychosocial care of oncological patients. He completed further training as a general practitioner and emergency medicine doctor . From the start of his medical practice, he completed numerous assignments abroad, including in India , Bangladesh and the USA .

During his trip through India Trabert got to know the “outreach health care concept” medical street work , in which mainly leprosy patients were treated. The guiding principle followed by this concept is: "If the patient does not come to the doctor, the doctor comes to the patient". Inspired by this work and his experience there, he applied this medical approach to health care for homeless people. In 1994 he founded the Mainz model, a medical care facility for homeless people. Trabert and his colleagues use a “doctor's mobile” to visit certain locations and offer medical help free of charge. Trabert was the first doctor in Germany to receive statutory health insurance approval for this form of mobile practice .

logo

He is the author of numerous articles on the subject of poverty and health, child poverty, poverty and suicidality, children of parents with cancer. Trabert is also the author of children's books on cancer. In 1998 he founded the Association for Poverty and Health in Germany , a member of the National Poverty Conference . From 1999 to 2009 he held a professorship for medicine and social medicine at the Georg-Simon-Ohm University in Nuremberg , and since 2009 a professorship for social medicine and social psychiatry in the social affairs department of the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences .

In 2013 Trabert set up the "Ambulance without borders" on the premises of the city of Mainz. 20 doctors, nurses and social workers work in the outpatient department. Homeless people and patients without insurance coverage are given free medical treatment.

Trabert received numerous awards. These include the Federal Cross of Merit , the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Paracelsus Medal . In 2019, Trabert was the first university professor to be awarded the “ University Professor of the Year ” award, endowed with 10,000 euros ; the ceremony was on April 6, 2020 as part of the “Gala of German Science” in Berlin.

Assignments abroad

  • Health outpatient clinic for Bosnian refugees in Ljubljana Slovenia
  • Health care program in the slums of Dhaka Bangladesh
  • 2001 after September 11th in Afghanistan
  • 2003 Angola during the civil wars
  • 2004 Liberia during the civil wars
  • 2005 after the tsunami in Sri Lanka
  • 2009 Health care in the South Seas , Cook Islands
  • 2010 after the earthquake in Haiti
  • 2010 Pakistan after the flood disaster
  • 2011 East Greenland
  • 2012 prisoner care in Ethiopia
  • 2013 Care of the mentally ill in Indonesia (Bali)
  • 2013 Care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
  • 2014 East Greenland
  • 2014 Care of the mentally ill in Indonesia
  • 2014 Care for street children in Kisumu
  • 2015 Sea-Watch - civilian sea rescue of refugees, Lampedusa, Italy
  • 2015 Care for refugees in Kilis, Turkey (Syrian border)
  • 2016 Sea-Watch - Civilian Sea Rescue of Refugees, Malta
  • 2016 Care for refugees in Idomeni, Greece
  • 2016 Care for refugees in Kilis, Turkey (Syrian border)
  • 2016 Care for refugees in Reyhanli, Turkey (Syrian border)
  • 2016 Support for the Akrabat Hospital in Idlib , Syria
  • 2017 Support for health facilities in the Rojava region, Northern Syria (including Kobane)
  • 2017 Collaboration in the Ayn Issa refugee camp in the Raqqa region, Northern Syria
  • 2017 Support of the aid organization CADUS - participation in TSP (Trauma Stabilization Point) in Mosul, Iraq
  • 2017 Care for refugees on the island of Lesbos , Greece
  • 2018 Care for refugees in Kobane, Raqqa and Manbidsch, Northern Syria
  • 2019 humanitarian, medical service in an orphanage in Benin , West Africa
  • 2019 Care for patients with diabetes mellitus in Kobané , Northern Syria
  • 2019 ResQship - Civilian Sea Rescue of Refugees in the Mediterranean
  • 2019 Care for street children in Kisumu , Kenya
  • 2020 Refugee care in Kara Tepe Refugee Camp and Camp Moria on Lesbos, Greece

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.armut-gesundheit.de/index.php?id=67
  2. ↑ a b c Nicole Weisheit-Zenz: Gerhard Trabert: Gratwanderungen. In: ISBN 978-3-9812304-4-4 . Roland Reischl Verlag, 2017, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Mainzer Sozialmediziner is university professor of the year , deutschlandfunkkultur.de Kulturnachrichten from November 28, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019
  4. ↑ Professor Gerhard Trabert is “University Professor of the Year” , hochschulverband.de press release November 26, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019
  5. ↑ Refugees in Greece - Lesbos: 1,500 children "absolutely not enough". In: ZDF . March 11, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 .
  6. ^ Salomon Neumann Medal for Prof. Trabert , DGSMP September 16, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Trabert, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general practitioner and doctor for the poor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz