Prof. Dr. med. Dr.h.c. Karl-Werner Schweppe
Retired Chairman of the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Ammerland Clinic GmbH; Academic Teaching
Hospital of the University of Göttingen
Lange Straße 28 / D – 26655 Westerstede /
Germany
1978 Board examination in Obstetrics & Gynecology
1979 – 80 Research assistant professor in the Dept. Obst. a. Gynecol. and Dept. of Pathology of the Medical School University of Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
1980 – 84 Dept. Obst. a. Gynecol. Univ. of Münster; 1983 Ass. Professorship; 1988 Full professorship
1983 Pfannenstiel-Staude Award of the North German Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1984 – 2009 Chairman of the Dept. Obst. a. Gynecol. Ammerland Clinic, Acad. Teaching
Hospital of the University of Göttingen and since 2009 Chairman of the Endometriosis Centre Ammerland
1988 – 2003 President of the Scientific Endometriosis Foundation (SEF) and again from 2013 – 2017
1997 – 2001 Member of the board European Endometriosis Information Centre
Since 2002 Member of the European Endometriosis League
2004 – 2005 President of the North German Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Member of several national and international Societies of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive medicine.
2009 Golden Scope Award of the AGE
2011 Honoree member of the North German Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Author and co-author of 8 books, 2 scientific films, 40 book chapters; over 130 peerreviewed
papers in national and international scientific journals concerning sonography, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, contraception, gynecological endocrinology, reproductive medicine and endometriosis
