Vittoria Braun

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Vittoria Braun (born December 16, 1948 in Meiningen ) is a German general practitioner and physician at the Berlin Charité . She has been a professor since 1998 and was director of the institute for general medicine there until 2012.

She was born into the family of the surgeon Fritz Höhn and the general practitioner Sieglinde Höhn. Vittoria Höhn completed her A-levels at the Salzmann High School in Meiningen. She then studied medicine in Leipzig , Jena and Berlin from 1967 to 1973 . In 1971 she married the geologist Peter Braun, with whom she had a son and a daughter. In 1973 she obtained her license to practice medicine, in 1975 she received her doctorate.

From 1973 to 1978 she completed further training as a specialist in general medicine and completed her habilitation in 1990. From 1991 she was a lecturer at the Charité and established herself as a specialist in general medicine in 1992. She set up a training, advanced and advanced training center in Berlin-Köpenick and used her medical practice, which she continued throughout her professional life, to train students.

In 1998 she was appointed to the Charité. There she was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Institute for General Practice, of which she was director from 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2012. In 2005 and 2006 she was deputy director. The newly established chair, the first chair for general medicine at the Charité, was held half by Ulrich Schwantes . From 2007, she sat on the board of the Berlin Medical Association, was a member of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice , a member of the German Academy for General Medicine of the German Medical Association and the Permanent Coordination Group of Health Services Research of the German Medical Association. Braun is a member of the scientific advisory board of the archive of German-speaking general medicine in Lübeck.

Together with her employees, Braun set up large networks of general practitioners in which around 200 general practitioners came together. Among other things, their diagnostics and therapy were evaluated there with a view to patients with inflammatory bowel diseases and strokes.

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  1. ↑ Braun, Vittoria. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on May 21, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).
  2. ↑ German medical weekly publication 124, 14-26 (1999), p. 544.
  3. ↑ Berliner Ärzteblatt 120 (2007), p. 8.
  4. ↑ Susanne Dettmer, Gabriele Kaczmarczyk, Astrid Bühren: Career planning for women doctors , Springer Medizinverlag Heidelberg, 2006, p. VII.
  5. ^ Claudia Steinhäuser: The archive of German-speaking general medicine in Lübeck .
  6. ↑ Berlin Medical Association honors Vittoria Braun, Volkmar Schneider and Helmut Hoffmann with the Georg Klemperer Medal . Press release of the Berlin Medical Association , October 16, 2015, accessed on May 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Vittoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen