Gerhard Englert (born September 12, 1938) is a German physicist and agricultural engineer and self-help official (Deutsche ILCO).
Englert received his doctorate in 1969 and his habilitation in 1983. Since 1973 he was at the State Institute for Agricultural Engineering Weihenstephan (Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture).[1] Since 1991 he has been a university lecturer at the Chair of Agricultural Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
From 1975 to 2012 Englert was chairman of the Association of Ostoma Wearers (ILCO). He was the initiator of the stoma support group, a working group of stoma professionals and ostomy wearers, and has been its 1st chairman since 1990. As a representative of patient self-help, Englert was involved in the program for national health care guidelines and designed measures to improve the quality of patient information. He played an important part in the development of the new concept of “patient guidelines” for the translation and interpretation of medical standards by patients and for patients.
Englert was President of the European Ostomy Association (EOA) and the International Ostomy Association (IOA). As IOA President, Englert suggested, among other things, the introduction of an international day of action for ostomists, the World Ostomy Day (World Ostomy Day, October 6).
In 1998 Englert received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class,[2] in 2009 the Medal of Honor of the German Medical Association.[3] The German Cancer Aid awarded him the German Cancer Aid Prize for 2009 in “recognition of [his] commitment to cancer patients, for the acceptance of cancer self-help in the healthcare system and for [his] merits in implementing patient participation in the care system”.
As a representative of patient self-help, Englert was involved in the program for national health care guidelines and designed measures to improve the quality of patient information. He played a key role in the creation of the new concept of “patient guidelines” for the translation and interpretation of medical standards by patients for patients. Englert is chairman of the German ILCO, the self-help organization for ostomists and people with colon cancer.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Englert is the 2004 Archie Vinitsky Awardee conferred by the International Ostoymy Association.
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