Jürgen Windeler
Jürgen Windeler (born January 25, 1957 in Hildesheim ) is a German doctor and professor of medical biometry and clinical epidemiology .
Life
After studying human medicine in Göttingen and Lübeck , Windeler received his doctorate in 1985 and worked from 1986 to 1988 as an assistant doctor and research assistant at the university clinics in Göttingen, Düsseldorf and at the Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Klinikum Wuppertal. He then moved to the Department of Medical Informatics and Biomathematics at the Ruhr University Bochum , where he completed his habilitation in 1993. From 1993 to 1999 he was deputy head of the department for medical biometrics at the University of Heidelberg and was instrumental in drawing up the positive list for drugs that classify only a small part of the approximately 50,000 drugs that can be prescribed as medically meaningful.
In 1999 he became head of the Evidence-Based Medicine department of the Medical Service of the Central Association of Health Insurance Funds (MDS), which advises the associations of statutory health insurance funds at the federal level on fundamental medical and nursing questions. From 2004 to summer 2010, Windeler was also deputy managing director and chief doctor of the MDS. He is also an adjunct professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum.
On September 1, 2010, Windeler took over the management of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), succeeding Peter Sawicki .
Focus of work
Windeler is an expert in the qualitative assessment of medical measures and in particular in assessing the effectiveness and risk of therapeutic and diagnostic procedures.
Selected tasks and functions
- Member of the processing commission B 5 of the Federal Health Office 1992–1994
- Member of the Institute for Drugs Regulation in the statutory health insurance (IAK; positive list) 2000–2003
- Member of the expert group "Off-Label-Use" at the BfArM 2003–2005
- Chairman of the German Network Evidence-Based Medicine ( DNEbM ) 2005–2007
- Extraordinary member of the Drugs Commission of the German Medical Association (AkdÄ) since 2006
- Co-Editor of the Journal for Evidence, Education and Quality in Health Care (ZEFQ)
Publications (selection)
- J. Windeler, S. Lange: Methodical requirements for clinical studies and their interpretation. In: Federal Health Gazette - Health Research - Health Protection. 2009; 52 (4): 394-401. doi : 10.1007 / s00103-009-0826-4
- J. Windeler: Methodological foundations of evidence-based medicine. In: Health Care 2008; 70 (7): 418-430. doi : 10.1055 / s-2007-986350
- J. Windeler: Shaping medical care - evidence-based medicine as an opportunity. In: Health Care 2003; 65 (3): 149-154. doi : 10.1055 / s-2003-38519
- as ed. with Reinhold Haux, Axel W. Bauer , Wolfgang Eich, Wolfgang Herzog , Johann Caspar Rüegg : Wissenschaftlichkeit in der Medizin, 2: Physiologie und Psychosomatik. Attempts to get closer. Frankfurt am Main 1998.
- Pubmed: Publications by J. Windeler
Web links
- Curriculum vitae on the IQWiG website
- Curriculum vitae on the AkdÄ website
- "Not every early diagnosis makes sense" - Interview January 2011
- "We know the tricks of the pharmaceutical industry" - Interview Berliner Zeitung December 2013
- "Use the drug" - Interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung, August 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ G-BA: The impartial chairman welcomes the decision on the new IQWiG management . G-BA press release, June 8, 2010.
- ↑ Fighter for scientifically based medicine . Süddeutsche.de, June 8, 2010
- ↑ "The risk is underestimated" . Rheinischer Merkur Online. September 2, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Windeler, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and professor for medical biometry and clinical epidemiology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |