Academician EBERHARD MERZ, MD, PhD, Professor
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Head, Centre for Ultrasound and Prenatal Medicine in Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation Germany
Vice president of IAPM
Tel: +49 171 2696400
E-mail: merz.eberhard@web.de
Biografija
Education and training, work experience: 1976 MD Christian Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany; 1977 PhD Christian Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany; 1978-2000 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Mainz, Germany; 1985 specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Mainz, Germany; 1988 habilitation, senior doctor and head of the Centre for Ultrasound and Prenatal Therapy University of Mainz, Germany; 1995 professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Mainz, Germany; 2000-2013 Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Head of the Centre for Ultrasound and Prenatal Medicine, and Head of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Hospital Nordwest (affiliated Teaching Hospital of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Present position: Head of the Centre for Ultrasound and Prenatal Medicine in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) Germany since 2002
President of the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine 2006-2008
Vice-President of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine (IAPM)
Member of many international and national scientific societies
Received many recognitions from several scientific societies
Publications and scientific activities:
More than 260 peer reviewed papers. 9 books on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
More than 340 invited lectures at national and international meetings
1999 until 2024 Editor of the European Journal of Ultrasound
2007 until 2023 Co-Editor of Ian Donald School Journal of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Achievements:
1989 pioneer of 3-dimensional ultrasonography in obstetrics and gynecology
2007 release of the first German Computer Program Prenatal Risk Calculation (PRC 1.0) for the detection of chromosomal defects
2011 release of PRC 2.0
2013 release of PRC 3.0. The latest program is now used in many countries and is available in German, English, Portuguese and Spanish
Organization of conferences: 25 international and national conferences
September 5-6, 1997: 1st World Congress on 3D Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mainz, Germany
June 12-14, 2008: The Fetus as a Patient conference in Frankfurt, Germany
March 21-24, 2019: 3rd World Congress on 3D/4D Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Eberhard Merz, Asim Kurjak), Dubrovnik, Croatia
