Prof. Axel Kramer, M.D.
Specialist for hygiene and environmental medicine
Prof. Dr. med. Axel Kramer, specialist for hygiene and environmental medicine, has been heading the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald since 1990. In this position he unites his teaching with research and the hygienic care of the University Hospital Greifswald. He is a founding member and president of the “German Society for Hospital Hygiene” (DGKH) and a member of the commission “Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute”.
His core tasks include:
• Hospital Hygiene
• Antimicrobial agent research
• Medical significance of thiocyanate
• Relative importance of the environmental medicine for the community medicine.
Prof. Dr. med. Kramer works as an important counselor on the field of hygiene and environmental medicine for the International Institute for Health Economics, especially if the assessment of innovations is about aspects of sustainability or future-proof development and resource conservation as well as about the theory and practice of hospital hygiene with the focus on antisepsis.
“Every scientist is requested to interpret sustainable development in the light of the discipline he represents and by that to contribute to the configuration of the guiding principle.” (Axel Kramer)
Publications
Prof. Kramer has registered 52 patents in the field of scientific research in Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, as well as around 394 journal papers, 206 scientific articles in textbooks, monographs and volumes, 63 scientific pieces in conference proceedings and brochures, textbooks monographs and volumes.
Curriculum vitae
since 1999
Scientific advisory panel member of the Ministry of Health Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
1994-1998
Vice dean of the medical faculty, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald
since 1993
Member of the Commission for Hospital (healthcare associated) Hygiene and Infectious Disease Prevention at the Robert Koch Institute
since 1992
Member of the disinfectant commission by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (German society for hygiene and microbiology), now within the applied hygiene group
since 1992
Member of the work group hospital and practice hygiene by the AWMF (association of the scientific medical societies in Germany)
since 1990
President and founding member of the German Society for Hospital Hygiene (DGKH)
since 1990
Full professor for hygiene and environmental medicine at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald and head of the institute for hygiene and environmental medicine
1986
Habilitation within the hygiene subject at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald
1982
Specialist for hygiene and environmental medicine
1977
Graduation
1972
Approbation as a physician
1966 – 1972
Studies of medicine at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, study visit in all Eastern European countries
Others
Publisher of the journal German Medical Sciences Krankenhaushygiene interdisziplinär (interdisciplinary hospital hygiene)
Co-publisher of the journal Hygiene und Medizin (hygiene and medicine)
Editorial board member of the Int. J. Hyg. Environm. Health
So far author of three published books of poems
Prof. Kramer has registered 52 patents in the field of scientific research in Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, as well as around 394 journal papers, 206 scientific articles in textbooks, monographs and volumes, 63 scientific pieces in conference proceedings and brochures, textbooks monographs and volumes.