Jan Leidel

Jan Leidel (born July 14, 1944 in Gießen ) is a German virologist and social medicine specialist who, as head of the health department of the City of Cologne, was involved in many associations and institutions in the public health system from 1985 to 2009 and has received numerous awards.

Life

Leidel is the son of the dermatologist and poet Hans Joachim Leidel (1915–1962) and the dermatologist Hilde Leidel, b. Adolph (1918-1979). After attending the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Giessen, Jan Leidel studied human medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1964 to 1970 . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a scientific assistant to Hans Joachim Eggers at the Institute for Medical Virology , which he followed to Cologne in 1973 to set up the Virological Institute at the University of Cologne with him . In 1975 Jan Leidel received his doctorate in medicine on the standardization of the test procedure for antiviral disinfectants. In 1978 he moved to the Cologne Health Department, where he was responsible for the prevention and control of communicable diseases and all questions relating to general and specific hygiene as an epidemic officer. In 1979, after attending the medical officer course at the Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf (AföG), he was appointed municipal senior medical officer. After the state medical examination in 1980, he was appointed City Medical Director and recognized as a doctor for public health and as a specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology in 1982. In 1985 he was appointed chief city medical director, shortly after he had been appointed head of the Cologne health office, which was founded in 1905 under the direction of Cologne's first medical assistant, Peter Krautwig , as the first city health office in Germany.

Jan Leidel was married to Sigrid Leidel, b. Kalina (1944–1996), who headed the Cologne child and youth health service from 1977 to 1996. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. Leidel has been married for the second time since 1998 to Beate Felten-Leidel, an English student, translator and writer, who was born in Grefrath in 1955.

Act

During Leidel's tenure, the Cologne Health Department was one of the first institutions to develop socially compensatory working approaches based on the concept of subsidiarity , which was borrowed from Catholic social teaching . For example, the Cologne Health Department takes care of the general practitioner care of people living in Cologne who do not have a permanent place of residence, are chronically mentally ill or for other reasons are unable to take advantage of the regular health care offers.

At the end of 2006, Leidel set up the work area health promotion in old age in cooperation with the Cologne senior networks, among other things with the low-threshold project to increase physical activity 3000 steps extra in tours in the Cologne Veedeln .

Leidel initiated the care and prevention concept for AIDS , which became known as the Cologne Line and was coordinated with charities and interest groups . The health department coordinates the work. In 1986, the first psychosocial supervisor was Pastor Rainer Jarchow , who was then a psychotherapist in Cologne and who later founded the German AIDS Foundation .

Honorary positions and association activities

Leidel was appointed by Rita Süssmuth to the National AIDS Advisory Board founded in 1987, to which he was a member until 2010, and from 1991 to 2006 he was chairman of the examination committee for the state medical examination at the Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf (AföG). Leidel is a member of numerous professional and professional associations, including chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Association of the Federal Association of Doctors in the Public Health Service (BVÖGD) and was elected to the Chamber of the North Rhine Medical Association for the Marburg Federation . Furthermore, Leidel has been a member of the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) since 1994 , its deputy chairman from 2004 to 2007, and its chairman from February 16, 2011 to March 2017. From 1998 to 2012 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and, in this role, helped develop the RKI 2010 program (concept for strengthening and redesigning the RKI as a public health institute in cooperation with the BMG ). Leidel is also a member of the Meningococcal Working Group (AGMK) of the German Green Cross . Since 2009 Leidel has been one of the two deputy chairmen of the Cologne District Association of the German Red Cross .

Leidel was Honorary President of the German Medical Association 2014 in Düsseldorf, which also focuses on the public health service.

Honors

Because of his services to the public health service, he and his first wife were awarded the highest distinction of the Federal Association of Doctors in the Public Health Service, the Johann Peter Frank Medal, in 1996. In the laudation, Leidel was described as a “lateral thinker, but above all as a pioneer of the public health service”. In 1997 the Federal Health Association awarded him the Hildegard von Bingen Medal in recognition of the socially compensatory approaches he developed in the work of the health service. In June 2009, Leidel received the Johannes Weyer Medal for special merits from the North Rhine Medical Association and the North Rhine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians .

Articles (selection)

• Health Promotion: A Task for Tomorrow's Public Health Service . In: B. Badura et al .: Future task of health promotion (congress documentation). Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 1989
• Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases . In: P. Allhoff, G. Flatten, U. Laaser (eds.): Disease prevention and early detection; Handbook of Prevention . Springer-Verlag, 1993
• Complementary or subsidiary - what do we actually need the health department for? In: Health Care , 56, 1994, pp. 493-497
• The public health service in the field of tension between the need to save and new tasks . In: Health Care , 58, 1996, pp. 571-577
• Social medical tasks of the ÖGD . In: Bundesgesundheitsblatt , 48, 2005, pp. 1130–1137.
• Protection against infection as a task of the public health service . In: Hofmann (Ed.): Handbook of Infectious Diseases . ecomed, 27th result. 8/2008.
• (with R. Strauss, P. Helbling): Interfaces between infection medicine and the public health service . In: R. Marre, Th. Mertens, M.Trautmann, W. Zimmerli (Eds.): Klinische Infektiologie . Elsevier , Munich 2008
• (with H.-G. Kimont): Homeless Medicine and Public Health Service . In: JG Gostomzyk: Applied social medicine . ecomed (loose-leaf collection, status 2009)
• Committed to the health of the population - the public health service . In: Federal Health Gazette, July 2009, pp. 791–797

Web links

• Short CV + picture at the Green Cross (accessed July 2009)
• BG sheet 7/2009 (only) first page of the presentation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Health Department Cologne
2. ↑ According to Facebook Beate FL  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Frank Naundorf: "Rollende Ambulanz" cares for the homeless . In: Ärzteblatt No. 95, 1998; Accessed July 24, 2009
4. ↑ BMG: Tour in Vringsveedel . Accessed July 24, 2009
5. ↑ Appreciation of the city of Cologne on the occasion of the conference with nationwide representatives of health care for adoption. Accessed July 24, 2009
6. ↑ Members of the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) at the Robert Koch Institute, as of April 11, 2012 . Retrieved September 16, 2012.
7. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute (pdf) 2010. Accessed on September 16, 2012.
8. ^ German Green Cross: About us AMGK . 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2009.
9. ^ DRK Cologne, board of directors
10. ^ Article in the Rheinisches Ärzteblatt of the Medical Association of North Rhine May 2014
11. ↑ Note (PDF; 40 kB) In: Ärzteblatt Nordrhein 6/97, accessed July 2009