Walter A. Wohlgemuth

Walter Alexander Wohlgemuth (born May 15, 1966 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German radiologist and director of the university clinic and polyclinic for radiology and full professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Wohlgemuth studied human medicine at the University of Regensburg , the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich as well as health economics at the University of Bayreuth . After completing his dissertation, he began working at the Clinic for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology and at the Clinic for Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Augsburg Clinic , since 2001 as a senior physician and since 2003 as senior physician and head of the vascular and interventional radiology department.

Since 2002 Wohlgemuth has worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Medical Management and Health Sciences at the University of Bayreuth. In 2005 he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Economics there and received a license to teach in the fields of medical management and health sciences. From 2007 to 2011 he was part-time managing director of GWS Gesundheit Wissenschaft Demokratie GmbH, a research and consulting company in the healthcare sector. In 2009 he founded the interdisciplinary department for congenital vascular defects at the Augsburg Clinic and took over its management until 2011. In 2011 he was appointed professor for interventional radiology and senior physician at the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics at the University Hospital in Regensburg. From 2012 to 2017 he headed the Interdisciplinary Center for Vascular Anomalies in Regensburg. In February 2015 he founded the first German center for pediatric interventional radiology, an interdisciplinary treatment unit for children using minimally invasive surgical methods. In June 2017 he was appointed full professor and director of the University Clinic and Polyclinic for Radiology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . There he has also been heading the Interdisciplinary Center for Vascular Anomalies (IZG) at the University Hospital Halle (Saale) since 2018 .

Main focus of work and research

Wohlgemuth started his scientific career in the field of neurology, u. a. with the first description of a rare clinical picture (load-dependent ischemia of the lumbosacral plexus ) in order to then work in sequence research in magnetic resonance imaging . In addition to parallel health economic publications, he focused on the psychometric measurement of health-related quality of life, including the development of new measuring instruments.

Another focus was the scientific research in the field of interventional radiology. Among other things, the evaluation of a new method for restenosis prophylaxis after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty using endovascular brachytherapy , the development of a new method for portal vein thrombectomy and, in particular, embolization therapy with liquid embolisms. His current focus is on the development of interventional procedures in children, aortic stent grafts and the diagnosis and treatment of congenital vascular malformations, including the first description of a new method for the treatment of arteriovenous malformations.

Memberships in scientific associations

Wohlgemuth was the official representative of Eckhard Nagel in the "Commission for Sustainability in Financing Social Security Systems", which was set up by the German government as a panel of experts from 2002 to 2003 under the name of the Rürup Commission . Since 2005 he has been a member of the specialist committee for medicine and health sciences at AQUIN, a large German accreditation, certification and quality assurance institute for the certification of study programs, as well as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Association for Congenital Vascular Malformations and deputy spokesman for the AG Vascular Diseases in Childhood of the German Society for angiology . Wohlgemuth is currently a member of the review board of the journals European Radiology , Health Policy and Cardio Vascular and Interventional Radiology . Since the beginning of 2017 he has been Chairman of the Board of the German Interdisciplinary Society for Vascular Anomalies (DiGGefa) as well as the editor and author of the Compendium Vascular Anomalies , a freely accessible information portal with scientific expert knowledge on the diagnosis and therapy of vascular anomalies.

Publications

Books

• Niels Zorger, René Müller-Wille, Walter A. Wohlgemuth: Embolization therapy - basics and practical application . Unimed-Verlag, Bremen / London / Boston 2013.
• Walter A. Wohlgemuth, Michael H Freitag: Prioritization in Medicine - Interdisciplinary Research Approaches . Medical Scientific Publishing Company MWV, Berlin 2009.
• Walter A. Wohlgemuth: Evidence-based influencing factors and health-related quality of life. A health science analysis based on peripheral arterial occlusive disease . Bayreuth series of publications on health economics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth 2005.
• Walter A. Wohlgemuth, Julika Mayer, Eckhard Nagel: Handbook on a strategic health structure reform in Germany . Bayreuth Health Economics Vol. 4, Verlag PCO, Bayreuth 2003.

Book contributions

• Walter A. Wohlgemuth: Vascular malformations in the bone . In: Klaus Bohndorf, Herwig Imhof, Klaus Wörtler (Eds.): Radiological diagnostics of bones and joints . Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 2013, pp. 320–324.
• J. Volk, Walter A. Wohlgemuth: Integrated care . In: Eckhard Nagel (ed.): The health system in Germany . Deutscher Ärzteverlag, Cologne 2012, pp. 279–287.
• Anne G. Osborne, Susan I. Blaser, Karen L. Salzman: Pocket Radiologist Brain: The Top 100 Diagnoses . Elsevier Company, Munich 2004. [Translation from American into German]
• Walter A. Wohlgemuth: Imaging of the thorax relevant to intensive care medicine . In: Joachim Eckart, Helmut Forst, Hans Burchardi: Intensive Care Medicine . EcoMed Verlag, Landsberg / Lech 2003, pp. 7–35.
• Klaus Bohndorf, Walter A. Wohlgemuth: Radiological diagnostics . In: Walter Zimmermann, Erich Amarotico, Hans H. Koch: Compact knowledge of internal medicine . Dustri-Verlag, Munich 1999, pp. 1-34.
• Michael Engelhardt, Willy Christian, Walter A. Wohlgemuth, Klaus-Dieter Wölfle: How does the patient perceive the "advantages" of peripheral bypass surgery? In: Bernd Luther, Wolfgang Hepp (Hrsg.): Kruropedale arterial occlusions - diagnostics and treatment methods . Steinkopff Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, pp. 173-180.
• Michael H Freitag, Walter A. Wohlgemuth, Eckhard Nagel: Perspectives on health services research from an epistemological perspective . In: Maria Blettner, Christoph Fuchs, Jörg Michaelis, Eckhard Nagel (eds.): Health services research as an instrument for health system development . Academy of Sciences and Literature, Medical Research (Volume 15), Mainz 2009, pp. 55–60.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae at www.diggefa.de
2. ↑ New radiology professor establishes minimally invasive treatment methods - Center for Vascular Anomalies is launched at www.medizin.uni-halle.de, accessed on November 26, 2017
3. ^ GWS Health Science Strategy GmbH
4. ↑ Interdisciplinary Center for Vascular Anomalies
5. ↑ Interdisciplinary Center for Pediatric Interventional Radiology, Regensburg University Hospital
6. ↑ Interdisciplinary Center for Vascular Anomalies at the UKH
7. ↑ ^{a b} Short curriculum vitae in tabular form with research focuses on www.uniklinikum-regensburg.de, accessed on November 26, 2017
8. ^ The revolution in the operating room , article in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of August 19, 2017, accessed on November 26, 2017
9. ^ Technical committees of the institute , accessed on November 26, 2017
10. ^ Federal Association for Congenital Vascular Malformations .
11. ^ German Society for Angiology
12. ↑ Board of DiGGefa eV , abg3rufen on November 26, 2017
13. ↑ Compendium Vascular Anomalies