Michael M. Cooking

Cooking during the Hufeland Lecture at the University of Jena (2014)

Michael M. Cooking (born October 2, 1950 in Munich ) is a German doctor and scientist. He is a specialist in internal medicine and general medicine .

Life

Michael Cooking passed his Abitur examination at the Albert Einstein Gymnasium in Munich in 1969 and began studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Free University of Berlin . In 1976 he received his license to practice medicine .

After completing his doctorate, he worked at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and was a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Stanford University . After studying epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley (Master of Public Health) and further training, first as a specialist in internal medicine and then as a specialist in general medicine , Cooking completed his habilitation in 1988 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

From 1989 to 2011, Koch was a university professor for general medicine and director of the department of the same name at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1994 he received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of General Practitioners (London). In 1999/2000, Koch spent a sabbatical as a visiting professor at the Department of Primary Health Care (Institute of Health Sciences) at the University of Oxford . At the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg he is a lecturer in the field of general medicine for scientific competence.

From 2004 to 2010, cook was President (and has been Honorary President since 2014) of the German Society for General Medicine and Family Medicine . Since 2004 he has been writing a regular newsletter for members of the specialist society in which he comments on international studies relevant to general practitioners ( MMK benefits ).

He has been a full member of the Drugs Commission of the German Medical Association since 2006 , advisor to the publisher of the annual drug prescription report since 1998 and works in the “Drugs” and “Vaccinations” expert groups of Stiftung Warentest . He is also the managing editor of the journal for general medicine , co-editor of arznei-telegram and a member of the training committee of the German Association of General Practitioners (Baden-Württemberg).

Awards / prizes

• 1997 Hippocrates Medal for Services to European General Medicine, European Society of General Practice / Family Medicine
• 1994 Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of General Practitioners (London)
• 2014 Foundation Prize of the General Practice Foundation
• 2016 German Research Award for General Practice 2016 from Dr. Lothar Beyer Foundation (1st place, shared) for the project “ICUTI: Immediate vs. Need-based antibiotic therapy for uncomplicated urinary tract infections - a comparative effectiveness study in general practitioners' practices ”. Institute for general medicine and statistics at the Universities of Göttingen, Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg and Freiburg.
• 2017 Masaaki Ohkoshi Award, International Society of Chemotherapy (together with the co-authors of the publication Ibuprofen versus fosfomycin for uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women: randomized controlled trial ).

Publications (selection)

As editor

• Rational Pharmacotherapy in General Practice. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1991.
• Drug Education in General Practice. (= Occasional Paper. 69). Royal College of General Practitioners, London 1995.
• General medicine and family medicine. (= Dual row ). 5th edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2017.

As a co-author

• with R. Scollay, E. Butcher and I. Weissman: Lyt-markers on thymus cell migrants. In: Nature. 276, 1978, pp. 79-80.
• with SA McCurdy: Circumcision and the risk of cancer of the penis: a lifetable analysis. In: Am J Dis Child. 134, 1980, pp. 484-486.
• with C. Rosendahl, R. Kretschmer, K. Wegscheider and D. Kaiser: Avoidance of perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus: is passive immunization always necessary? In: Lancet. I, 1983, pp. 1127-1129.
• with K. Wegscheider and HH Abholz: Prophylaxis of constipation by wheat bran: a randomized study in hospitalized patients. In: Digestion. 31, 1985, pp. 220-224.
• with J. Hasford, H. Jäger, S. Zippel, M. L'age, C. Rosendahl, HS Füessl and D. Eichenlaub: How do patients with HIV perceive their general practitioners? In: BMJ. 303, 1991, pp. 1365-1368.
• with R. Kurzke, W. Himmel, K. Wegscheider and H.-H. Deforestation: Cancer incidence on a North sea island: research opportunities in general practice. In: Scand J Prim Health Care. 14, 1996, pp. 36-42.
• with W. Himmel and M. Tabache: What happens to long-term medication when general practice patients are referred to hospital? In: Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 50, 1996, pp. 253-257.
• mit E. Hummers-Pradier: Uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adult general practice patients. In: Br J Gen Pract. 52, 2002, pp. 752-761.
• with LM Bjerre and TJM Verheij: Antibiotics for community acquired pneumonia in adult outpatients. In: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 4, 2004, Art. No .: CD002109 (update 2009, 2014)
• with W. Himmel and A. Rogausch: Principles of management - biopsychosocial issues, management plans, and patient-centered outcomes. In: R. Jones, N. Britten, L. Culpepper, DA Gass, R. Grol, D. Mant, C. Silagy (Eds.): Oxford textbook of primary medical care. Oxford University Press, Oxford / London / New York 2004, pp. 227–230.
• with E. Blozik, M. Scherer and JF Chenot: Imaging for low back pain, the elusive hunt for a biomechanical cause. In: Lancet. 373, 2009, pp. 436-437.
• with A. Becker, F. Dört, K. Eckhardt, A. Viniol, E. Baum, J. Lexchin, K. Wegscheider and N. Donner-Banzhoff: The association between a journal's source of revenue and the drug recommendations made in the articles it publishes. In: Can Med Ass J. 183, 2011, pp. 544-548.
• with Ildikó Gágyor, J. Bleidorn, G. Schmiemann, K. Wegscheider and E. Hummers-Pradier: Ibuprofen versus fosfomycin for uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women: randomized controlled trial. In: BMJ. 351, 2015, p. H6544.
• with R. Sommerstein, FH Messerli and C. Gräni: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Do Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors / Angiotensin Receptor Blockers have a biphasic effect? In: J Amer Heart Assoc. 9, 2020, p. E016509.

Web links

• Vita of Michael M. Cooking
• Journal for general medicine, edited by Michael M. Cooking