Dirk Muller-wieland MD

Dr. Dirk Muller-Wieland is now the new President of the German Diabetes Association (DDG). The diabetologist follows Professor Dr. Med. Baptist Gallwitz will continue to serve as past president on the board. Müller-Wieland will take over the presidency in 2019 and above all wants to promote responsible digitalization in diabetology. Vice President for this period is Professor Med. Monika Kellerer. At the same time, the managing director of DDG, Dr. Dietrich Garlichs, ended June 2017 with the management of the society to Barbara Bitzer.

Under the outgoing President Baptist Gallwitz, the DDG managed to position itself much more strongly in health policy - among other things with the aim to integrate the expertise of the DDG into the decision-making processes of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) at an early stage to ensure the best possible therapeutic safety to ensure the patient. In addition, Gallwitz successfully campaigned for the promotion of junior scientists: Under his aegis, the DDG, for example, considerably increased the travel scholarship quota for its congresses and developed accompanying mentoring programs in which the members of the DDG Executive Board intensively look after the scholarship holders.

The new DDG President Dirk Müller-Wieland wants to build on the priorities of his predecessor and continue them. In health policy, for example, he will continue to work to ensure that scientific societies - including the DDG - are involved in the formulation of the medical standard in a structured manner. "In addition, with regard to clinical research and junior medical staff, it is important to increase the remaining eight German clinical chairs for diabetology in Germany, also to ensure the future clinical care of patients with the chronic widespread disease diabetes", emphasizes Müller-Wieland.