Ingo Flenker

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Walter Werner Ingo Flenker (born July 3, 1946 in Wuppertal ) is a German internist and medical officer.

Life

Flenker studied from 1967 at the University of Giessen medicine, later in Munich and at the University of Bonn , where he in 1975 with the work studies the kinetics of asparaginase and asparagine in the asparaginase therapy to Dr. med. PhD. From 1982 to 2012 he was chief physician for internal medicine at the Catholic Hospital Dortmund-West . Since 2003 he has also been medical director of the parent company, the Catholic St. Luke Society . From 1996 to 2002 he was a lecturer, from 2002 to 2016 honorary professor for the organizational structure of health care at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Ingo Flenker sat from 1979 to 1984 for the SPD in the district assembly of the Mettmann district . From 1987 to 2015 he was the second chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia / Rhineland-Palatinate regional association of the Marburger Bund . Flenker was President of the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association from 1993 to 2005 , his successor was Theodor Windhorst . Flenker is (as of 2019) chairman of the administrative committee of Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe .

As a board member of the Cancer Society of North Rhine-Westphalia, Flenker made outstanding contributions to setting up a cancer registry . As chairman of the “Addiction and Drugs” committee of the German Medical Association, he worked towards the development of therapy concepts and the recognition of addiction as a disease. He also helped improve medical care for the homeless . Further focal points of his professional policy activities were the further development of medical professional law and the digitization of medicine.

In 1996 Flenker was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with the Order of Merit . In 2019 he received the Paracelsus Medal, the highest award in the German medical profession. With his decades of commitment, Flenker has made a very special contribution to medical care, medical self-administration, the professional status of the German medical profession and the common good in the Federal Republic of Germany .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 760636958
  2. ↑ Former district council members: Dr. med. Ingo Flenker. In : kreis-mettmann.de. District administration Mettmann, accessed on June 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ New election of the board of directors of the Medical Association Westphalia-Lippe: Dr. Theodor Windhorst is the new President of the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association. (ÄKWL press release of November 26, 2005; PDF, 64 kB); accessed on June 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Administrative Committee. In: aevwl.de. Doctors Care Westphalia-Lippe , accessed on June 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Flenker, Ingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flenker, Walter Werner Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist and medical officer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal