Petra Gastmeier

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Petra Gastmeier (born June 28, 1957 in Potsdam ) is a German medical doctor and specialist in hygiene and environmental medicine. She is professor of hygiene at the Charité in Berlin and director of the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine located there.

Career

Petra Gastmeier completed her Abitur at the Weinberggymnasium in Kleinmachnow and began studying medicine in Halle in 1976 . In 1983 she received her license to practice medicine. She then completed her specialist training in hygiene and environmental medicine. In 1990 Gastmeier became a hospital hygienist at the Ernst von Bergmann Clinic in Potsdam . From 1993, she worked as a research assistant in the University of Berlin and following their habilitation as Professor of Hospital Hygiene at the Medical School in Hannover . Gastmeier has been director of the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the Charité since 2008. She also heads the National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections.

Scientific work

Gastmeier completed his doctorate in 1985 with the title Contribution to the Elimination of Salmonella from the wastewater of municipal wastewater treatment plants and was awarded the Robert Koch Prize of the Berlin Humboldt University in 1986 . In 1990 Gastmeier was given a teaching position at the Institute for Hygiene at the Free University of Berlin, where she worked as a research assistant from 1993. In this role, Gastmeier was involved in setting up the Hospital Infection Surveillance System (KISS) for the continuous monitoring of nosocomial infections from the very beginning . In 1999, she completed her habilitation on the subject of Nosocomial Infections in Intensive Therapy : Possibilities and Limits of a Surveillance System , Gastmeier processed experiences with the KISS. In 2000 she worked as a professor at the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene under Dieter Bitter-Suermann . In 2000 she was offered a C3 professorship for hospital hygiene at the Hannover Medical School in the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene under the direction of Dieter Bitter-Suermann. In 2003 she received the main prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) and in 2007 the Schülke Prize. During this time, she was the head of the DGHM's General and Hospital Hygiene Section and vice-president of this society from 2006 to 2010. In 2007, Gastmeier moved back to the Charité when she was offered the W3 professorship for hygiene there. She has been director of the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at Charité since the beginning of 2008 and heads the National Reference Center for the surveillance of nosocomial infections. In this role, she accompanied the establishment of the Clean Hands Campaign (ASH), which she has been leading ever since. ASH also uses modules from the Hospital Infection Surveillance System (KISS), which Gastmeier helped to develop. Due to her commitment to this database-supported recording system, the name Miss KISS has become natural for Gastmeier in hygienist circles .

In the course of her scientific work, Gastmeier has published around 350 scientific publications.

Societies, associations and campaigns

Prizes and awards

literature

  • Andreas Mihm: Miss Kiss' fight against the killer germ , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 9, 2015, page 20

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ "Hygiene award for Miss KISS", Ärzteblatt online (2015)
personal data
SURNAME Gastmeier, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miss KISS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam