Stefan Okonek

Stefan Okonek (born June 25, 1942 in Göttingen ) is a German toxicologist, emeritus professor of medicine and former head of the Mainz poison control center.

Life

After completing his studies, Okonek received his doctorate in 1968 and worked as a doctor and research assistant at the 2nd Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the University of Mainz in the 1970s. He completed his habilitation in 1977 and was appointed professor at the University of Mainz in the same year.

Okonek specialized in poisoning and in 1973 became head of the poison information center at the University of Mainz.

In the 1980s, Okonek was asked several times by the media as an expert on the health dangers of leather sprays, about which he also published a specialist article.

In 2003 he emigrated to Malaysia.

Works

• Poisoning, detoxification, poison information , 1981, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-10331-8
• as editor: Human toxicology: acute poisoning, poison information , 1979, Fischer, ISBN 978-3-437-10585-2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ S. Okonek: About the gastroenteral absorption of obidoxime (toxogonin) and the possibilities of promoting absorption in rats , University of Göttingen, 1968. DNB 481548211 .
2. ^ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Directory of persons and studies 1976/77
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2001
4. ↑ DIE ZEIT of September 30, 1983: New editions for leather sprays: Black Peter with the consumer
5. ↑ DER SPIEGEL of February 22, 1988: Parrot in the fog
6. ^ S. Okonek, HJ Reinecke, W. Fabricius, K. Preußner: Poisonings through leather impregnation sprays: A retrospective analysis of 224 poisoning cases , Dtsch med Wochenschr 1983; 108 (49): 1863-1867, DOI: 10.1055 / s-2008-1069840
7. ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt: Did not appear in Eltville ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.