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Günter Burg, M.D.
Founding Editor
CURRICULUM VITAE
Günter Burg received his training in medicine and dermatology in Germany and was
appointed professor and chairman of the departments of Dermatology of the University in
Würzburg/Germany 1988-1991 and in Zürich 1991-2006. He has been vice-dean and dean
respectively of the Faculty of Medicine in Zürich 1998-2004. He has organized the
harmonization of the learning objectives for Dermatology in the Swiss Catalogue of
Learning Objectives and is the principle editor of DOIT, Dermatology Online with Interactive
Technology, a Swiss Virtual Campus project (#991017). He currently is a delegate of the
“Foundation for Modern Teaching and Learning in Medicine” at the University medical
School in Zürich.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Born
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5 February 1941, Mayen / Germany
University Schools of Medicine (Bonn, Marburg)
Training in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine and Pathology
Department of Dermatology, University of Munich
Postgraduate Fellowship, NYU, New York (1971)
Chairman of the Department of Dermatology, University School of Medicine, Würzburg/Germany
Chairman of the Department of Dermatology, University School of Medicine Zurich/Switzerland
Vice Dean Medical Faculty, University of Zurich
Member of the Steering Committee of the University Hospital of Zurich
President of the Promotions Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich
Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Zurich
Emeritus Dermatology
Chairman of the E-Learning Task Force of the German Dermatologic Society(including Austria and Switzerland)
Main Fields of Interest
Clinical Dermatology; Dermatopathology ..
Investigational Dermatology with special reference to Dermato-oncology (cutaneous lymphomas, malignant
melanoma and epithelial tumors)
Establishing first unit for Mohs surgery in 1970 in Europe (Munich)
E-Learning, E-consulting, Telemedicine
Publications
Journals
Over 740 (456 original articles; 146 review articles; 139 book chapters)
Books
(Author or
Editor)
>30 books and monographs, including Cutaneous Lymphomas (G. Burg and O. Braun-Falco; 1983; G. Burg
and W. Kempf; 2005), Telemedicine and Teledermatology, (G. Burg, Ed; 2003) and WHO Book on Tumors
of the skin (LeBoit, P., G. Burg, et al., Eds; 2006).
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Member of the LEOPOLDINA (German Academy of Scientists)
Doctor honoris causa of the Medical University of Sofia (2005)
Visiting Professor, Medical University Kathmandu, Nepal