Michael Schmitz
Specialty: Nephrologist, Hypertensiologist
Experience: 25 years
Clinic: Municipal Clinic Solingen
Admission fee: To be clarified
About doctor Michael Schmitz
Michael Schmitz is Head of the Department of Nephrology at the Clinic for Geriatrics, General Internal Medicine and Nephrology since May 2021 and Chief Physician of the Medical Clinic III at the Academic Hospital Solingen since April 2022. The doctor specializes in the treatment of internal diseases and nephrology and is a leading specialist in this field in Germany and Europe.
Qualifications
- 2006 – Specialist in internal medicine;
- 2007 – Qualification in nephrology;
- 2007 – Specialization in hypertensiology awarded by DHL (German Hypertension League);
- 2013 – Hypertension specialist of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH);
- 2014 – Qualification in intensive care;
- 2022 – Qualification in laboratory diagnostics.
Dr. Schmitz has additional training in diagnostic radiation, emergency medicine, and infusion therapy, as well as certifications in Good Clinical Practice and Good Medical Practice.
Professional experience
- 2000 – Assistant hysician and researcher at the Clinic for Nephrology and Rheumatology at the University Hospital Düsseldorf;
- 2008 – Leading physician at the Clinic for Nephrology and General Internal Medicine at the Solingen City Hospital, where he was responsible for quality management in the interdisciplinary stroke department and was deputy responsible for blood transfusion under the direction of Professor Peter J. Hering;
- 2009 – Employee of the Curation of Home Dialysis (KfH) at the Solingen City Hospital;
- 2021 – Chief Physician of the Nephrology Department of the Academic Hospital Solingen.
Doctor’s specialty
The main areas of scientific and practical activity of Dr. Michael Schmitz are:
- geriatrics;
- general internal medicine;
- nephrology;
- intensive care;
- emergency medicine;
- laboratory diagnostics;
- radiodiagnostics;
- infusion therapy;
- hypertensiology.
Doctor’s education
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1993
Medical degree and continued his studies until 2000 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA;
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2002
Medical license;
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2003
Defended his doctoral thesis on the topic “Antiproliferative effects of Paclitaxel (Taxol®) on human renal cancer cell lines and multidrug resistance phenotype” at the Institute of Pathology, Heinrich Heine University, under the supervision of Professor J. Gerhartz;
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2018
Master's degree program in Health Business Administration (MHBA) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Membership in medical associations
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German Society for Nephrology (DGfN);
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German Society for Internal Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN);
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German Interdisciplinary Association of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI);
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Rhenish-Westphalian Society for Internal Medicine (RWGIM);
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German Hypertension League (DHL);
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European Society of Hypertension (ESH);
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German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM).
Achievements and awards
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2017
Philipp Klee Prize of the Medical and Natural Science Society of Wuppertal;
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2016
Scientific Prize of the Rhenish-Westphalian Society of Internal Medicine.
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