Günter Ollenschläger

Günter Ollenschläger (born 3 March 1951 in Bonn) is a German physician and medical editor, a former professor of internal medicine and clinical decision making at the University of Cologne. He trained first as a pharmacist, earning a pharmaceutical doctorate at Münster in 1977, and then took a medical doctorate at Giessen in 1982 and qualified as a university lecturer at Cologne in 1990. He worked as a research pharmacist and later as a university physician on pharmacokinetics, tumor-related malnutrition and metabolism. After directing continuing medical education at the German Medical Association, he was founding head of the German Agency for Quality in Medicine from 1995 until 2014, where he built programs for evidence-based guidelines, patient information and patient safety. He co-founded the German Network for Evidence Based Medicine in 1998 and the German Coalition for Patient Safety in 2005, was founding chairman of the Guidelines International Network in 2002, and edited the German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare from 1995 to 2015.