On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher.

Authors :: Haux R
Geissbuhler A
Holmes J
Jaulent MC
Koch S
Kulikowski CA
Lehmann CU
McCray AT
Séroussi B
Soualmia LF
van Bemmel JH
Source :: Yearbook of medical informatics [Yearb Med Inform] 2017 Aug; Vol. 26 (1), pp. 9-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Sep 11.
Publication Year :: 2017
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.<br />Competing Interests: Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.<br /> (Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart.)