Wolfgang Pförringer

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Wolfgang Pförringer (born August 13, 1944 ) is a German orthopedist and sports medicine specialist .

Life

Pförringer, who comes from an old family of doctors in Regensburg, studied medicine in Munich from 1965 and worked as an assistant doctor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and at the Davos Surgical Clinic (Switzerland). He completed further training at the State Orthopedic Clinic of the University of Munich with Alfred Nikolaus Witt , where he became a specialist in orthopedics and sports medicine in 1978, completed his habilitation in 1981 and was appointed associate professor at the University of Munich in 1987. After the sale of the state orthopedic clinic to a private sponsoring group, he was medical director there for a year and then opened a private ordination in Munich, Theatinerstr. 1, with operational activity at the Dr. Clerk in Munich.

Pförringer was one of the founders of the Society for Orthopedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine. This developed into an internationally active company.

As a further focus of his medical work, Pförringer then chose osteoarthritis with regard to its development, therapy and prevention and today mainly devotes himself to this disease in its conservative and surgical therapy.

Wolfgang Pförringer was appointed to head the CSU health policy working group alongside the former health minister Horst Seehofer .

In 1989 Pförringer was elected treasurer of the Society of German Orthopedics. He held this office until the end of 2010. In the newly created Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU), he again became its first treasurer. He received honorary membership of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (DGOOC).

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Pförringer has published numerous scientific publications, monographs and handbooks on the subject of sports medicine, including the only work to date on the subject of the epiphyseal plates and the last one to be published on the subject of the patella .

honors and awards

  • Honorary member of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery 2010
  • Honorary member of the Japanese Society for Orthopedic Sports Medicine (JOSSM) in 1988
  • Honorary member of the Helenian Orthopedic Society 2005
  • Honorary President of the German Association for Orthopedic Sports Traumatology (DVOST) 1999
  • Honorary chairman of the health policy working group of the CSU, Munich 1998
  • Fellow of the German-Swiss-Austrian travel grant (ASG) 1986
  • Member of the South African Orthopedic Society (SAOA) 1978

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary President of the German Association for Orthopedic Sports Traumatology
personal data
SURNAME Pförringer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and sports medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1944