Stefan Willich

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Stefan N. Willich (* 1959 ) is a German doctor , conductor , author and university professor.

Life

Willich studied human medicine at the Free University of Berlin , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the New York University . He received his doctorate in 1985 as Dr. med. He obtained a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University in 1990 and a Master of Business Administration degree from INSEAD in France in 1995 . In 1993 he was in the Department of Internal Medicine habilitation .

From 1993 to 1995 Willich was visiting professor for epidemiology at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald and visiting professor at Harvard University. In 1995 he was appointed to a professorship and appointed director of the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. From 2006 to 2012 he also headed the CharitéCentrum 1 for human and health sciences there. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology , a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of many professional societies.

Willich received violin lessons from the age of six . After graduating from high school, he studied violin, chamber music and conducting for two years at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart and in Berlin. Willich took u. a. participated in workshops with Sergiu Celibidache in Munich, Leon Fleisher in Boston / Tanglewood and Leon Barzin in Paris. Today he appears regularly as a conductor. In 2008 he founded the World Doctors Orchestra . From 2012 to 2014 he was the rector of the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .

COVID-19 pandemic

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , Willich said that there was "no reason to send the whole country into quarantine at home".

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.world-doctors-orchestra.org/conductor/
  2. ↑ https://www.hfm-berlin.de/hochschule/ueber-die-hochschule/geschichte/
  3. ↑ Thomas Trappe: Epidemiologist warns of even stricter measures. Der Tagesspiegel , March 24th, 2020, accessed on March 27th, 2020 (quotation): “[...] With a complete lockdown, one directly or indirectly endangers the economic existence of many people, and negative effects can already be seen. Unemployment could go up and precarious living conditions and, as a result, mental illnesses increase. [...] "
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SURNAME Willich, Stefan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willich, Stefan N.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959