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German Spine Society / deutsche wirbelsaulengesellschaft (DWG)

German Spine Society / deutsche wirbelsaulengesellschaft (DWG)

Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

By 2006, there were two companies in Germany that were dealing scientifically with the problems of the spinal column:
1. German Society of Spine Surgery
2. Society of Spine Research.

The German Society for Spinal Column Surgery (DGW) was founded in Hamburg on 4 June 1987 as an association of surgeons, accident surgeons, orthopaedists, neurosurgeons and other persons who were active in the field of spine in clinics and research.

Finally, in 2003, Prof. Carstens was elected President of the Society for Spine Research. At the decisive meeting, he was given the explicit mandate to re-establish contact with the German Society of Spine Surgery with the aim of discussing possible association between the two companies.

At the 2006 anniversary in Munich, she decided to rename herself to "Deutsche Wirbelsäulengesellschaft (DWG)". Prof. Dr. Michael H. Mayer from Munich, the last president of the German Society of Spine Surgery, became the first president of the DWG. Prof. Claus Carstens became the second president in 2007.

In the meantime, DWG is the largest, specialist spinal society in Europe. It is the interdisciplinary forum of basic researchers as well as conservative and operational colleagues in Germany. At the end of 2012, more than 1,250 members are recruited by neurosurgeons, accident surgeons and orthopedic surgeons with a year-on-year increase. The success story described will go on and shows retrospectively the correctness of the decisions made in 2005-2006.

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