Maria Blettner

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Maria Blettner (born November 15, 1952 in Oberwesel ) is a German medical statistician emeritus .

Life

From 1972 to 1978 Blettner studied statistics at the University of Dortmund with the minor subjects economics and social sciences. After graduating, she first worked as a research assistant in the Statistics Department at the University of Dortmund and later at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon. From 1985 to 1988 Blettner worked at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, USA, as an expert in radiation epidemiology . In 1987 she received her doctorate in statistics from the University of Dortmund. She then taught medical statistics at the University of Liverpool . From 1989 Blettner worked as a statistician and epidemiologist in the epidemiology department of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

1994 habilitation they are at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. In 1997 a further research stay at the IARC in Lyon followed, until in 1999 she accepted the call to the C4 professorship for epidemiology and medical statistics at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielefeld University .

From 2003 to 2018 Blettner was director of the Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Computer Science (IMBEI) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Maria Blettner was chairwoman of the German Radiation Protection Commission from June 1999 to May 2001 . After the then Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin had appointed people who were, in the opinion of many members of the commission, unqualified to commission committees, she resigned as criticism. In 2015 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon together with the former chairman of the radiation protection commission, Rolf Michel, and the then chairman Wolfgang-Ulrich Müller .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chair of the Radiation Protection Commission . Website of the Commission on Radiological Protection (accessed on September 7, 2017).
  2. ↑ Wulf Schmiese : Researcher accuses Trittin of calling "sympathetic friends". Die Welt from May 18, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Blettner, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical statistician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwesel