Gustav Wagner (medical IT specialist)

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Gustav Wagner (born January 10, 1918 in Hanover ; † September 16, 2006 ) was a German medical IT specialist .

Life

Gustav Wagner studied medicine as a soldier during the Second World War, passed the state examination at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the winter of 1945 and received his doctorate in 1946 with a thesis on "About the apparent death". med.

He then made a name for himself as a scientist in two fields of medicine. His clinical career began at the Dermatology Clinic in Hanover and he remained loyal to dermatology until his habilitation in 1954 at the University of Kiel . His investigations into epidemiology in this area brought him closer to the second subject, medical documentation , to which he devoted most of his work and energy from then on, even after his retirement until shortly before his death.

Medical informatics

Gustav Wagner shaped the development of this new subject in Heidelberg and was one of the protagonists on a national and international level. He contributed to the creation of the scientific society of his discipline, the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) , of which he was an honorary member.

Important projects

  • "Dermatological diagnosis key"
  • "General medical record head"
  • Introduction of the TNM encryption system for tumors
  • Cancer literature documentation system "CancerNet"

International activity

Wagner was a committed and widely accepted representative of Germany in international specialist societies and committees, among others. a. he was in charge of several projects of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).

Official positions

From 1964 to 1986 Wagner was director of the Institute for Documentation, Information and Statistics at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and at the same time held the chair for medical documentation and statistics at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University . During this time he performed numerous official functions, for example from 1967 to 1968 and from 1973 to 1974 he was chairman of the board of directors of the DKFZ and a long-standing member of the steering committee of the Heidelberg / Mannheim Tumor Center.

Editorial activity

In addition to his scientific work, his editorial work must be emphasized: He made his "Methods of Information in Medicine" the world's leading journal on information processing in medicine, and with Siegfried Koller he published the first standard work in the field (the handbook of medical documentation and data processing) he published the first cancer atlas for the Federal Republic and was editor of a series of conference proceedings and manuals, eg. B. the "organ-specific tumor documentation".

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical IT specialist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2006