Johann Weidringer

Johann Wilhelm Weidringer, M.D., Dr. is EO of the Bavarian Chamber of Surgeons and Physicians, Munich, Germany, since 1994.

From 2010 to 2012, he was Chairman of the Protection Commission of the Ministry of the Interior. He joined the Commission in 2000 as an honorary member, and from 2004 to 2009 he acted as Chairman of the Department of Medicine. Additionally, he is the Professor for Health Sciences and Health at the University of Applied Sciences “Health and Sports,” Berlin.

He is member of several boards and commissions, including the board of Rescue Services and Hospitals (NARK), Head of the Task force on EN 1522 of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) in Berlin since 2001, and shares different working groups of the German Medical Association, Berlin.

Since 1993, he has been serving on night duties as an Emergency Surgeon at Munich-Airport.

Before he joined the Bavarian Chamber of Physicians he worked as Senior House Officer (Surgeon) at the Department of Trauma Surgery, Technical University of Munich, the Department of General Surgery, Military Hospital in Ulm and at the Institute for Experimental Surgery, Technical University in Munich.

Weidringer is a graduate of the Universities of Regensburg and the Technical University Munich (magna cum laude).

He received distinguished awards, e.g. the Research-Award of the Midrenish Society for Surgery in 1989, the Seal of the German Society for Surgery in 1999, the Quality Award of the German Health Care Service for the Bavarian Chamber of Surgeons and Physicians / Quality Management Trainings in 2004, the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006 and the Max Lebsche Medal of the Bavarian Association for Surgery in 2008.