Petra Gastmeier
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
- since 2005 participation in several commissions of the Robert Koch Institute
- Petra Gastmeier has been organizing the "Clean Hands Campaign " since 2008
- 2006 to 2010 Vice President of the DGHM
- President of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectiious Diseases
- Member of the supervisory board of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research
- Member of advisory boards of the World Health Organization
- Member of working groups of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control
Prizes and awards
- 1986 Robert Koch Prize from Humboldt University
- 2003 Main Prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
- 2007 Schülke Prize
- 2015 Prize for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (RKI)
literature
- Andreas Mihm: Miss Kiss' fight against the killer germ , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 9, 2015, page 20
Web links
- CV Petra Gastmeier on the website of the Robert Koch Institute (PDF; 9 kB)
- Price for hospital hygiene on the RKI website
- "Hygiene award for Miss KISS", Ärzteblatt online (2015)
Notes and individual references
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gastmeier, Petra |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miss KISS |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |