Nationality German Name Walter Wohlgemuth | Residence Germany | |
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Institutions University Medical Center Regensburg Known for Congenital vascular anomalies and pediatric interventional radiology. |
Walter A. Wohlgemuth (born 15 Mai 1966 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German radiologist and neuroradiologist. He is a professor of interventional radiology and attending deputy at the Department of Radiology at the University Medical Center Regensburg. Wohlgemuth is known for his clinical und scientific works in the field of diagnostics and therapy of congenital vascular anomalies and of pediatric interventional radiology.
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Biography
Wohlgemuth studied medicine at the University of Regensburg, at the Technische Universität München and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as well as health economics at the University of Bayreuth. After finishing his dissertation he began his career at the Clinic of Radiology and Neuroradiology and at the Clinic of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the hospital of Augsburg. 2001 he was named functional attending chief resident and 2003 attending deputy and head of the department of vascular and interventional radiology. Since 2002 Wohlgemuth worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Medical Management and Health Sciences at the University of Bayreuth. 2005 he was habilitated at the faculty for law and economics in Bayreuth and received a venia legendi for medical management and health management. From 2007 to 2011 he was avocational CEO of the GWS Gesundheit Wissenschaft Strategie GmbH, a research and consulting company in the field of health management. 2009 Wohlgemuth launched the Interdisciplinary Center for Congenital Vascular Anomalies at the hospital of Augsburg, which he presided until 2011. 2011 he was appointed professor of interventional radiology and attending deputy at the Department of Radiology at the University Medical Center Regensburg. Since 2012 Wohlgemuth is head of the newly established Interdisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Center in Regensburg. In 2015 Wohlgemuth founded the first German Center for pediatric interventional radiology, a interdisciplinary treatment unit with minimal-invasive operation methods for children.
Scientific contribution
Wohlgemuth began his scientific career in the field of neurology with the first description of a rare symptom concerning ischaemia of the lumbosacral plexus. He then worked in magnetic resonance imaging sequence research. Besides parallel publications in health economics he focused on psychometric measurement of health related quality of life, among others on the development of new psychometric instruments. He set a further focus on the scientific research in the area of interventional radiology. Here he worked on the evaluation of a new procedure for restenosis-prophylaxis after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty by means of endovascular brachytherapy, the development of a new method for portal vein-embolectomy as well as the assessment of new liquid agents for embolisation. His actual emphasis covers the development of interventional procedures for children, aortic stent grafts and the diagnostics and therapy of congenital vascular anomalies. where he as the first person described a new method to treat arteriovenous malformations.
Academic memberships
Wohlgemuth was the official deputy of Eckhard Nagel in the commission for sustainability in the financing of the social security systems (Kommission für die Nachhaltigkeit in der Finanzierung der sozialen Sicherungssysteme), which was established by the German government in 2002/03 under the name of Rürup-Kommission. Since 2005 he is a member of the expert committee medical and health sciences at AQUIN a leading German institute for accreditation, certification and quality management in the area of certification of higher education. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the support group for congenital vascular diseases as well as the deputy speaker of the committee for vascular diseases in childhood of the German Association for Angiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angiologie). Currently Wohlgemuth is an employee of the review board of the journals European Radiology, Health Policy und Cardio Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
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