Siegfried Meryn

Siegfried Meryn

Siegfried Meryn (born March 6, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian internist .

Live and act

Meryn graduated from the Realgymnasium Schottenbastei in 1972 , studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1972 to 1977 and did his doctorate in Vienna. From 1978 to 1984 he trained as an internal specialist at the I. Medical University Clinic and I. University Clinic for Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He completed post-doctoral training at Hammersmith Hospital in London and conducted research with Rosalyn Sussman Yalow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City . Then he trained in hospital management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and in management at the Hernstein Institute . In 1987 he received the venia docendi for internal medicine.

Meryn works in the Teaching Center of the Medical University of Vienna. He was visiting professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

Meryn claims to be the author of 250 publications in professional journals. He also wrote bestsellers in popular science.

Publications

• Strategies for personal health management. Quintessenz, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-928036-17-3 .
• From practice. Answers to the 100 most common patient questions. Orac, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7015-0366-4 .
• The big ORF health book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-8000-3731-9 .
• with Markus Metka and Georg Kindel: Der Mann 2000. The hormone revolution. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-8000-3755-6 .
• The principle of happiness. Basics and rules for a fulfilled life. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8000-3829-3 .
• with Georg Kindel: course book man. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3775-0 .
• The big ORF nutrition book. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3774-2 .
• Life to 100. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-8000-3932-X .
• with Christian Skalnik: Those who die healthy have more from life. Ecowin, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902404-67-1 .

Awards

• Max Kade Foundation Award and Grant
• Kuner grant
• 1985: Friedrich Wewalka Prize
• 1999: Golden Book : Austrian Book Prize of the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade The large ORF health book
• 2000: Golden Book Austrian Book Prize of the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade Der Mann 2000
• 2003: Golden Book : Austrian Book Prize of the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade Life to 100
• 2004: Medal of honor of the Austrian Cancer Aid
• 2012: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Current functions

• Founder of the “No to sick and poor” initiative, which has set itself the task of providing quick and unbureaucratic help for sick people with experience of poverty and publicly soliciting support as a mouthpiece for those affected by poverty
• Member of the ORF public council
• Chairman of the ORF Health Advisory Board
• Member of the ORF program committee
• Board member of the Friends of the Theater an der Wien association
• Member of the board of trustees of FK Austria Wien
• since 2017: Member of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery

• Protagonist in the Cape 10 project in Vienna-Favoriten

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried Meryn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Siegfried Meryn's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} CV Siegfried Meryn , p. 2. (PDF)
2. ^ Specialist in internal medicine , Siegfried Meryns website.
3. ↑ Employees of the General Department of the Teaching Center of the Medical University of Vienna
4. ^ CV Siegfried Meryn , p. 11. (PDF)
5. ↑ ÖGGH - Wewalka Prize Winner ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 27, 2015. 
6. ↑ Cancer Aid Honor Coin . Retrieved August 27, 2015.
7. ↑ Great decoration of honor for internists Siegfried Meryn . APA notification dated November 30, 2012, accessed August 15, 2015.
8. ↑ Bioethics Commission is newly appointed in July: Four new members in the advisory body for the Federal Chancellor . OTS notification dated June 27, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017.