Martin Klimpfinger

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Martin Klimpfinger (born December 20, 1955 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian pathologist and university professor. Klimpfinger is head of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute of the Social Medical Center South - Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital , an academic teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna. He is also Past President of the Austrian Society for Pathology - Austrian Division of the International Academy of Pathology.

Life

Klimpfinger studied medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Karl Franzens University (KFU) in Graz (since 2004: Medical University of Graz), where he received his doctorate in 1983. 1983/84 he worked at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy of the KFU (board member H. Denk), 1984 at the department for internal medicine of the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder Graz-Eggenberg (board member O. Eber), 1984/85 at the surgical university clinic of KFU (board member J. Kraft-Kinz). In 1985 he began the pathology specialist training at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy at the KFU, which he completed in 1989. Since 1991 he has been an additional specialist in cytodiagnostics , and in 1993 he received his habilitation for the entire subject of pathology at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy at the KFU.

During study visits at King's College London , the Hannover Medical School, the University of Erlangen , the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC and the University of California Los Angeles , he mainly devoted himself to gastrointestinal pathology and here again oncological issues, which is reflected in won four scientific prizes and 480 scientific papers, lectures, workshops and major clinical-pathological conferences.

From 1993 to 1996 he was assistant professor at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy at the KFU, and since 1994 he has been an additional specialist in human genetics . In 1997 he was awarded the official title of "Extraordinary University Professor" at the KFU, and in 1999 the professional title of " Extraordinary University Professor ". He also held several administrative positions at the KFU, including various laboratory manager positions at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy (1994–1997).

In 1997 he was appointed medical director ( primary physician ) of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute of the Social Medical Center South - Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital (Vienna). Between 1998 and 2000 he played a key role in the new construction and reorganization of this institute. Among other things, he and his colleague Wolfgang Hulla set up a modern molecular pathology laboratory at the institute, which today functions as a supraregional diagnostic and reference center for modern molecular pathological diagnostics.

In 2015/16 he was President of the Austrian Society for Pathology / IAP Austria and has been Past President since 2017.

Scientific awards

  • Höchst Prize of the Medical Faculty Graz (1988)
  • Friedrich Wewalka Memorial Prize of the Austrian Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology (1990)
  • Höchst Prize of the Medical Faculty Graz (1991)
  • S. Canning Childs Foundation Prize for Medical Treatment and Research (2003)

Scientific papers and lectures

  • 146 original articles, overviews, book chapters
  • 136 scientific lectures or posters with abstracts
  • 167 scientific and advanced training lectures without abstracts
  • 8 diagnostic and methodological workshops
  • 25 major clinical-pathological conferences

further activities

Participation in quality assurance commissions

Klimpfinger was and is a member or chairman of several internal and external quality assurance commissions. Among other things, he has been a member of the quality assurance commission of the hospital of the Sisters of Mercy in Vienna since 2014.

Participation in boards and advisory boards

Klimpfinger was and is a member of boards and advisory boards of scientific societies and journals. For example, he is a reviewer for various international scientific journals (since 1993 including " Virchows Archiv ", "Liver", "Endoscopy", "Acta chirurgica Austriaca / European Surgery") and since 2001 a member of the German-speaking TNM committee of the International Union against Cancer ( Union Internationale Contre le Cancer ) / UICC.

Further memberships

He is a member of the German Cancer Society , the Austrian Society for Pathology / IAP Austria, the Austrian Society for Microbiology, Preventive Medicine and Environmental Protection, the Austrian Society for Applied Cytology, the Austrian Society for Infectiology, the Working Group for Surgical Oncology and the Academia Medecinae Lech.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna Hospitals, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, p. 403
  2. ↑ cf. Newsletter 1/2015 of the Austrian Society for Pathology / IAP - p. 4
  3. ↑ cf. Board of the Austrian Society for Pathology / IAP
  4. ↑ a b cf. Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna Hospitals, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, p. 404
personal data
SURNAME Klimpfinger, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt