Axel Kramer MD

Professor Axel Kramer MD is a specialist in Hygiene and Environmental Medicine and former head of the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, Germany. In this role he combines teaching with research, as well as the management of infection prevention- and control for the University Hospital Greifswald. He is a member of the commission for ‘Hospital Infection Prevention- and Control at the Robert Koch Institute’ and a founder member of the German Society for Hospital Hygiene (DGKH), having been its president from 1990 to 2010.