Reinhart Waneck

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Reinhart Waneck (born October 16, 1945 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian doctor and FPÖ politician. From 2000 to 2004 he was State Secretary for Health Care.

Life and work

After studying medicine at the University of Vienna (1971 graduation as Dr. med.univ.), Waneck completed specialist training in radiology with study visits to Germany, the USA and Sweden; his habilitation took place in 1985, and at the same time he was appointed head of the radiology department at the hospital of the Sisters of Charity in Vienna. In 1994 he was given the professional title “ao. University Professor ”awarded. In 1995 he became medical director in the hospital of the Sisters of Mercy in Vienna.

Waneck wrote more than 200 publications in domestic and foreign (X-ray) specialist journals in German, English and French, including articles on professional politics (including regularly in the French medical newspaper).

He has been a member of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna since 2018 .

Political career

Waneck has been a member of the FPÖ since 1971, was a member of the Vienna Medical Chamber from 1977 to 1999 (non-partisan parliamentary group Austrian Medical Committee) 1978–1986 member of the faculty committee of the University of Vienna and member of the service committee, 1981–1986 chairman of the service committee for university teachers, mandate of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce 1992 , Member of the Academic Senate.

On February 4, 2000 he was appointed State Secretary for Health in the "Federal Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs" (later: "Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations" or "Federal Ministry for Health and Women"), from which position he was in the course left a government reshuffle.

Memberships

  • Association of Austrian University Lecturers
  • Austrian Radiological Society
  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
  • European Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
  • International College of Angiology (FICA)
  • Association for Medical Radiation Protection in Germany, Austria
  • Austrian Medical Committee
  • Academic connection between Wartburg and Vienna (in the representative day of academic corporations)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The University Council of MedUni Vienna . Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  2. orf.at: University councils: FPÖ sends ex-government member, ÖVP Dichand . Article dated February 20, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018.
  3. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)