Curriculum vitae
Professor Markolf Hanefeld, MD, PhD
Centre for Clinical Studies, Dresden Technical University, Dresden, Germany
He is Director of the Study Centre Professor Hanefeld, GWT at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. In 1981 he published the first comprehensive concept of metabolic syndrome based on 10 years investigation at the Dresden Medical School. Over the last 15 years his research has focused on the importance of postprandial glucose regulation for the development of atherosclerotic vascular disease and type 2 diabetes, commencing with the Diabetes Intervention Study (DIS), the RIAD Study, leading up to the STOP-NIDDM trial concentrating on people with IGT.
Prof. Hanefeld is a member of the steering committees for STOP-NIDDM, DREAM, RECORD and ORIGIN. He was one of the founders of the Saxonian model of education and care for diabetes, and of the Saxony-Thuringia Expert Forum for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases. Between 1996-98, he was President of the German Atherosclerosis Research Society and in the same year became a Visiting Professor of the Private University in Buenos Aires. He has recently been pronounced an Honorary Professor of the University of Havana, Cuba, is honorary member of the Slovakian Diabetes Association and of the Bulgarian association for the study of obesity and related diseases. He is also a member of numerous national and international advisory boards for the prevention of diabetes and its complications.
Professor Hanefeld’s other research interests include internal medicine, metabolism, diabetology and endocrinology. He has published 12 monographs and more than 450 original articles in scientific journals on diabetes, lipoprotein disorders, atherosclerosis research and the metabolic syndrome. He is Co-editor of the Saxony Diagnosis and treatment of the metabolic syndrome and of other guidelines related to type 2 diabetes and lipiddisorders. Prof. Hanefeld has also been awarded the W. Schönheimer Award of the German atherosclerosis Research Society and the Paul Langerhans Award in 2007 from the German Diabetes Society.
2011 he got the Award ‚outstanding research on the roles of the metabolic syndrome and postprandial glucose metabolism in the development of cardiovascular disease in diabetes and for life-long leading role in the care and prevention of diabetes and its complications’ at the 4. Int. Congress ‘Prediabetes and the Metabolic syndrome’ in Madrid.
2011 he was Co-Präsident of the first CODHy Asia Congress in Shanghai.