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. 2017 Aug;26(1):9-15.
doi: 10.15265/IY-2017-003. Epub 2017 Sep 11.

On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher

R Haux, A Geissbuhler, J Holmes, M-C Jaulent, S Koch, C A Kulikowski, C U Lehmann, A T McCray, B Séroussi, L F Soualmia, J H van Bemmel

On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher

R Haux et al. Yearb Med Inform. 2017 Aug.

Abstract

May 1st, 2017, will mark Dieter Bergemann's 80th birthday. As Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Schattauer Publishers from 1983 to 2016, the biomedical and health informatics community owes him a great debt of gratitude. The past and present editors of Methods of Information in Medicine, the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, and Applied Clinical Informatics want to honour and thank Dieter Bergemann by providing a brief biography that emphasizes his contributions, by reviewing his critical role as an exceptionally supportive publisher for Schattauer's three biomedical and health informatics periodicals, and by sharing some personal anecdotes. Over the past 40 years, Dieter Bergemann has been an influential, if behind-the-scenes, driving force in biomedical and health informatics publications, helping to ensure success in the dissemination of our field's research and practice.

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Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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IMIA Honorary Fellow certificate for Dieter Bergemann. Picture, taken in 2016, at his office at Schattauer, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Dieter Bergemann in his office at Schattauer, Stuttgart, Germany. Picture, taken on May 16, 2002.
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Drawing from 2007, visualizing the two informatics periodicals published at this time, and Schattauer as well as Mayr Miesbach. Picture, taken in 2016, at Dieter Bergemann’s office at Schattauer, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Methods editors-publisher meeting on May 9, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. From left to right: Jan van Bemmel, Gustav Wagner (1918-2006), Alexa McCray, Dieter Bergemann and Reinhold Haux.
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Participants of the symposium ‘Biomedical Informatics: Confluence of Multiple Disciplines’, on the occasion of 50 years of Methods of Information in Medicine , from June 9 to 11, 2011, at Heidelberg, Germany. From left to right: Reinhold Haux (Germany), Helga Bergemann (Germany), Victor Maojo (Spain), Marion Ball (USA), Fernando Martin-Sanchez (Australia), Corinna Scharnweber (Germany), Michael Marschollek (Germany), Dieter Bergemann (Germany), John Mantas (Greece), Klaus-Hendrik Wolf (Germany), Joyce Mitchell (USA), Petra Knaup (Germany), Riccardo Bellazzi (Italy), Jana Zvárová (Czech Republic), Katsuhiko Takabayashi (Japan), Hartmuth Dickhaus (Germany), Edward Shortliffe (USA), Dominik Aronsky (USA), Alexa McCray (USA), Olaf Gefeller (Germany), György Surján (Hungary), Jan van Bemmel (The Netherlands), An van Bemmel (The Netherlands), Jan Talmon (The Netherlands), Arie Hasman (The Netherlands), Christian Lovis (Switzerland), Donald Lindberg (USA), Fia Hasman (The Netherlands), Neil Sarkar (USA), Mary Lindberg (USA), Peter Murray (UK), Casimir Kulikowski (USA), Hans Peterson (Sweden), Andreas Ziegler (Germany), Michio Kimura (Japan), Hyeoun-Ae Park (South Korea), Ulla Gerdin (Sweden), Mariah Junglan Min Park (South Korea), Mark Musen (USA), Christoph Lehmann (USA), Randy Miller (USA), Elske Ammenwerth (Austria), Lucila Ohno-Machado (USA), Linda Miller (USA), Andrea Schürg (Germany), Antoine Geissbuhler (Switzerland), Tze Yun Leong (Singapore), Peter Henning (Germany). Other participants, not in the picture: Marianna Diomidis (Greece), Jan Haaf (Germany). More details in [ 2 ].
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IMIA Yearbook editors-publisher meeting on March 7, 2013 at Stuttgart, Germany. Dieter Bergemann is surrounded by (from left to right) MIA Yearbook Editorial Assistant Martina Hutter MIA Yearbook editors Brigitte Séroussi and Marie-Christine Jaulent.
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Initial Applied Clinical Informatics editor-publisher meeting on September 16, 2008, at Stuttgart, Germany, with Christoph Lehmann and Dieter Bergemann.
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