Werner Mendling

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Werner Mendling (born October 22, 1946 in Saffig , Mayen district ) is a German gynecologist .

Life

After graduating from high school, which Mendling took in October 1966 at the humanistic state Kurfürst-Salentin-Gymnasium in Andernach , he began two years of voluntary military service , during which he trained as a medical officer . He then began studying medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where he stayed until the Physikum in 1971, before continuing to study at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he passed the state examination in 1974 . A year later followed the doctorate to Dr. med. in Düsseldorf with an experimental work on artificial heart valves in a circulatory simulator, in the same year Mendling obtained his license to practice medicine. From 1976 to 1995 he worked as a doctor in the Rheinische Landesfrauenklinik and midwifery school in Wuppertal -Elberfeld (today part of the Helios Clinic Wuppertal ). In 1980 he was recognized as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics and was appointed senior physician a year later .

Mendling completed his habilitation in 1994 on the subject of immunological examinations in vaginal mycoses and received the license to teach at the University of Witten / Herdecke . In 1995 he moved to the Frankfurt (Oder) Clinic as chief physician at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics (Perinatal Center ) . After three years in Frankfurt, his second wife Gabriela Mendling published the book NeuLand under the pseudonym Luise Endlich , in which she expressed herself very negatively about her experiences as a West German in East Germany. After the true identity of Luise Endlich had become public, the family was exposed to great hostility and Mendling gave up his position in 2000 and switched to the clinic for gynecology and obstetrics at Vivantes-Klinikum Am Urban in Berlin-Kreuzberg and at the same time became chief physician of the clinic for gynecology and obstetrics at the Friedrichshain Clinic . In 1995 he was also given the license to teach at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 2000 . In 2007 his wife Gabriela died. After finishing his chief physician activity in Berlin in November 2011, he moved back to Wuppertal, where he founded the German Center for Infections in Gynecology and Obstetrics at the St. Anna Clinic in Wuppertal and the cooperation partner Ernst Rainer Weissenbacher in Munich in April 2012 .

activities

Mendling has been a member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics since 1976 and of the German-speaking Mycological Society since 1979 . In 1987 he was a founding member and since then has been a board member of the Working Group for Infections and Infection Immunology in Gynecology and Obstetrics and he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Dr. Manfred Plempel Foundation in the German-speaking Mycological Society since 1996. From 1996 to 2000 Mendling was the spokesman for the chief physicians for gynecology and obstetrics in Brandenburg and from 1996 to 1998 a founding member and board member of the Federal Association of Leading Doctors in Gynecology and Obstetrics. V., also state chairman for Brandenburg. He was chairman of the examination committee for gynecology of the Brandenburg State Medical Association and chairman of the breast cancer working group at the oncological focus Frankfurt (Oder) from 1997 to 2000. In 1998 he held the post of President of the 32nd Scientific Conference of the German-speaking Mycological Society in Frankfurt (Oder ) and was President of the Berlin Cancer Congress "Gynecological Oncology - State of the Art" in April 2011. Since 2008 Mendling has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Johann Lucas Schönlein plaque of the German Mycological Society.

Mendling is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of mycoses , the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology and has been a Rotarian since 1996 . In 2010/11 he was President of the Rotary Club Berlin Airlift.

author

As an author, Mendling has written over 175 scientific publications and book chapters, held more than 200 lectures and chaired meetings, as well as around 200 seminars on gynecological infections with microscopic exercises. He wrote the textbooks:

  • 1987 Die Vaginalkandidose (Springer Heidelberg, also translated into English, Spanish and Italian)
  • 1995 Vaginosis, Vaginitis and Cervicitis (Springer Heidelberg)
  • 2006 Vaginose, Vaginitis, Cervicitis und Salpingitis, 2nd, extended edition with picture section on vulvar diseases

Awards

In 1989 and 1991 he received the Janssen Prize for the promotion of mycological research in gynecology and obstetrics, and in 2007 he was awarded the Johann Lucas Schönlein plaque from the German-speaking Mycological Society.

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SURNAME Mendling, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Saffig