Dietrich H. W. Grönemeyer (born 12 November 1952) is a German professor of

medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

and one of the inventors of Microtherapy.SMST-2004: proceedings of the International Conference on Shape - 2006 - Jörn Richter and Dietrich Grönemeyer, Institut für Mikrotherapie, cf. The End of Hardware, 3rd Edition: Augmented Reality and Beyond p415 Rolf R. Hainich - 2009 "Dietrich Grönemeyer, who created interventional radiology, supported my ideas in their early stages already." He grew up in

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with his two brothers. One of them, Herbert Grönemeyer, is a popular musician. After studying

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and

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and medicine in

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Grönemeyer graduated in 1978. In 1982 he received a Ph.D., and at the

Witten/Herdecke University Witten/Herdecke University is a private, state-recognized, nonprofit university in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was the first German private institution of higher education to receive accreditation as a "Universität", a status ...

in 1990 he finished his

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, a work that is usually needed in Germany to become a university professor. He is the director of the "Grönemeyer Institute for MicroTherapy" in

, and he teaches

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and microtherapy at the privately financed

. He is also a visiting professor at

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, and Steinbeis-Hochschule in

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Publications

* with Rainer M. Seibel: ''Interventionelle Computertomographie.'' Wien 1989, . * with Robert B. Lufkin: ''Open Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging.'' Berlin u. a. 1999, .

References

External links

www.microtherapy.de
- Grönemeyer Institute for Microtherapy 1952 births Living people Georgetown University faculty Harvard Medical School people Groenemeyer, Dietrich {{Germany-med-bio-stub