Martina Pötschke-Langer

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Martina Pötschke-Langer (born March 13, 1951 in Bautzen ) is a German doctor in the field of cancer prevention . From 1997 to August 2016 she headed the Cancer Prevention Unit at the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg (DKFZ). From 2002 to August 2016 she also headed the WHO Collaboration Center for Tobacco Control at the DKFZ, which is recognized by the World Health Organization . In April 2016 she took over as CEO in Action Alliance Smoking eV

Life

After graduating from high school in 1970, Martina Pötschke-Langer studied history and German at the University of Heidelberg with a Magister Artium (MA) from the Faculty of Philosophy and History. The study of human medicine that followed from 1975 was completed with a state examination and license to practice medicine. The doctorate in human medicine took place at the University of Heidelberg. Further stations of medical activity were the Surgical University Clinic Heidelberg and the management of the national blood pressure program at the Institute for High Blood Pressure Research, later for the German Hypertension League Heidelberg. In 1992 she became a research assistant at the DKFZ, to which she was a member until the end of August 2016.

Act

A central goal of their commitment to health policy is to educate about the dangers of all types of smoking and the electronic cigarette , including all of its variants. Martina Pötschke-Langer names tobacco cessation and dangerous tobacco additives as key areas in the clinical area. In the scientific field, tobacco addiction needs to be further explored and ways to quit smoking as well as "evidence-based measures of tobacco prevention and tobacco control against the interests of the tobacco lobby" are to be implemented. These contrary positions are the cause of recurring social controversies in health policy.

Pötschke-Langer also does voluntary work. In 2016 she took over the chairmanship of the non-smoking alliance , in which non-governmental health organizations such as the German Medical Association , the German Cancer Society and the German Cancer Aid Foundation bundle their activities. The ABNR project includes the Tobacco Prevention Network Office, which is financed by donations from the German Cancer Aid.

As a politically independent expert, Pötschke-Langer was often an expert and appraiser for the federal and state governments. She advises the Federal Ministry of Health in Berlin and various state ministries, as well as the WHO and the EU Commission, on tobacco prevention issues.

Publications

Pötschke-Langer is a specialist author and editor of popular science publications in her subject area. This includes the series “Red Series on Tobacco Prevention and Tobacco Control of the DKFZ”, in which she was responsible for 30 publications up to 2016. She has also published in national and international journals.

Honors and awards (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. med. Martina Pötschke-Langer. In: akdae.de. November 18, 2014, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ internet source www.abnr.de, accessed on February 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Active smoke-free: Active smoke-free - Dr. Martina Pötschke-Langer receives the Federal Cross of Merit. In: aktiv-rauchfrei.de. February 21, 2008, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  4. ^ Sunna Gieseke: Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Martina Pötschke-Langer: The non-smoker of the year . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 104 , no. 24 . Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag , 2007, p. A-1759 / B-1554 / C-1493 .
personal data
SURNAME Pötschke-Langer, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen