Günter Ollenschläger (born 3 March 1951 in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

) is a German

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

medical Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practic ...

editor, and á former professor of internal medicine and clinical decision making at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

, Faculty of Medicine.

Biography

Ollenschläger is a certified pharmacist and general internist. He has a pharmaceutical

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

from the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of stud ...

(1977), a medical doctorate from the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von ...

(1982), and the

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from the

(1990). Günter Ollenschläger worked as a research pharmacist from 1975 until 1981, and as a university physician from 1983 until 1990, working in the fields of pharmacokinetics,

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malnutrition Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems. Specifically, it is "a deficiency, excess, or imbalance of energy, protein and other nutrients" which adversely affects the body's tissues ...

, and

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. Ollenschläger joined the

German Medical Association The German Medical Association (GMA) (german: Bundesärztekammer, BÄK), founded in 1947 and based in Berlin, is the co-ordinating body of physicians’ self-regulation in Germany. It co-ordinates the activities of the 17 State Chambers of Physician ...

as director of Continuing Medical Education from 1990 until 1995. From 1995 until 2014 he was founding head of the

German Agency for Quality in Medicine The German Agency for Quality in Medicine (AEZQ) - in German "Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)", established in 1995 and located in Berlin, co-ordinates healthcare quality programmes with special focus on evidence-based ...

. In that capacity he introduced a variety of projects to develop evidence based healthcare and knowledge management as well as patient safety in German healthcare: * ''German Program for evidence based medical guidelines'', * ''German Guideline Clearinghouse'', * ''German Clearinghouse for Patient Information'' in order to promote scientifically based

shared decision making Shared decision-making in medicine (SDM) is a process in which both the patient and physician contribute to the medical decision-making process and agree on treatment decisions. Health care providers explain treatments and alternatives to pa ...

, * ''National Program for Disease Management Guidelines''. * ''Program for Evidence based Patient Guidelines'' * ''Physicians' Program for

Patient Safety Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting and analysis of error and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events. The frequency and magnitude of ...

and Medical Error Prevention''. Ollenschläger was co-founder of the

German Network for Evidence Based Medicine The German Network for Evidence based Medicine (in German: Deutsches Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin DNEbM) is a scientific nonprofit association of individuals and institutions promoting the quality of patient care and disease prevention by appl ...

in 1998, and of the

German Coalition for Patient Safety The German Coalition for Patient Safety (APS) – in German "Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit (APS)", was established in 2005 and located in Bonn is a German non-profit association of organisations and individuals interested and involved in pr ...

in 2005. He was co-founder and Founding Chairman of the

Guidelines International Network The Guidelines International Network (GIN) is an international scientific association of organisations and individuals interested and involved in development and application of evidence-based guidelines and health care information. The network ...

in 2002. He was chief editor of the

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from 1995 until 2015. From 2015 until 2016 Günter Ollenschläger was editor-in-chief of the medical encyclopedia DEXIMED, the German version of the Norwegian e-book NEL. In 2019 Günter Ollenschläger was co-founder of Health Literacy Network Germany DNGK.

Awards

* Max-Rubner-Award – German Nutrition Society (1990) * Corresponding Member, German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians DEGAM (1994) * Berlin Health Award (1998) * German Health Award (1999) * Richard-Merten-Award (1999) * German Healthcare Quality Award (2001) * Honorary Patron -

(2005) * Honorary Chairman -

(2013) * Editor-in-Chief-Emeritus,

(2015) * Honorary Member -

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References

External links

German Network for Evidence based Medicine DNEbM

Health Literacy Network Germany DNGK

Guidelines International Network

The Journal of Evidence and Quality in Health Care

Personal Website

Researchgate: Publications G.O.

Pubmed: Publications G.O.

ORCID: Publications G.O.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ollenschlager, Gunter Living people German medical researchers Academic staff of the University of Cologne University of Münster alumni University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni Physicians from Bonn Medical journal editors 1951 births German healthcare managers