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Welcome to my private homepage. This brief overview should be considered as an opportunity to get in contact.

My motivation for the scientific projects is based on the opportunity to combine professional experience as a physician with skills in epidemiology.

Based on cooperation with medical registries revealed to Gynecology and Obstetrics, epidemiological issues had been already integrated in the professional work. Engagement in perinatal, oncological and reproductive data-collections produced interest in more theoretical background.

This is combined with experiences in medical information technology as a scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and optimal use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for problem solving and decision making. It touches on all basic and applied fields in biomedical science and is closely tied to modern information technologies, notably in the areas of computing and communication.

The scientific project at the Department of Epidemiology & International Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in cooperation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Reproductive Health Atlanta, Georgia strengthen the idea to focus on reproductive health. As a board member of the German Registry for Assisted Reproduction experience in data management, dataset structure and analysis exists.

The two years further training in Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine offered practical experience in all modern techniques and treatments including contraceptive methods, hormone therapy and assisted reproduction. Scientific interest is demonstrated in listed publications.

In December 2002 I moved from Bonn to Munich to build up an IVF-unit at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University which is running successfully.

Occupation

starting in January 2013

 

Senior partner

medical practice

Center for Reproductive Medicine

Altonaer Strasse

Gynaekologicum Hamburg

Altonaer Str. 59

20357 Hamburg - Germany

 

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until December 2012

 

Consultant

University Medical Center of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine

Ludwig-Maximilians-University

Maistrasse 11

80337 München - Germany

Vocational Education 

• Specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology

(5 years, completion October 1997)

University Medical Center of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 
University of Bonn

(Former Head: Prof. Dr. D. Krebs)

• Subspecialization in Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine

(2 years, completion January 1999)

Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University Medical Center of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Bonn

(Head of Department: Professor Hans van der Ven) 

• Medical Informatics

(2 years, completion June 2001)

Institute of Medical Biometrics, Informatics and Epidemiology, Department of Medical Informatics University of Bonn

(Former Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Andreas J.W. Goldschmidt)

Medical informatics is the scientific field that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and optimal use of biomedical information, data, and knowledge for problem solving and decision making. It touches on all basic and applied fields in biomedical science and is closely tied to modern information technologies, notably in the areas of computing and communication.

Memberships

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

• German Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe DGGG)

• Regional Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of North Rhine-Westphalia (Niederrheinisch-Westfälische Gesellschaft für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe)

• German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology
  (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie GMDS)

• German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ultraschall  in der Medizin DEGUM)

• German Study Group of Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Informationsverarbeitung in der Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe AIG)

• Professional Association of Medical Information Scientists (Berufsverband Medizinischer Informatiker BVMI)

• German-Chinese Society of Medicine
  (Deutsch-Chinesische Gesellschaft für Medizin)

• German Association of Employed Gynecologists
  (Marburger Bund mb)

• German Association of Private Working Gynecologists
  (Berufsverband der Frauenärzte BVF)

Collaborations

• Board member of the German IVF-Registry (DIR)

• Head of the German Study Group of Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology 1999 - 2001

• Member of the Scientific Board of the German Thyroid Federation (Deutschen Schilddrüsen-Liga e.V. SD-Liga)

Main fields of Research 

• Quality assurance in Reproductive Medicine

• Integration and effects of medical - controlling concepts

• Tools for valid data collection in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Grants, awards

• Award for doctoral thesis of the Gehring-Foundation

• Grant of the German Research Society DFG (central public funding organization for academic research in Germany)

• Grant of the B.Braun, Melsungen Company

Scientific projects

period:

October 2001 - April 2002

 

subject:

Tools for Quality Assessment and Quality Management in Assisted Reproductive Techniques

 

location:

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

School of Public Health

Department of Epidemiology & International Health

1665 University Blvd. Ryals Building

Birmingham, AL 35294 - 0022 USA

 

in cooperation with

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

United States Department of Health and Human Services

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Division of Reproductive Health

4770 Buford Hwy, NE, Mail Stop K20
Atlanta, GA 30341 - 3717
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

supervisor:

Maurizo Macaluso, MD, Dr.P.H.

Senior Research Scientist

Chief Women’s Health and Fertility Branch CDC

former Professor of the
Department of Epidemiology
and International Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

 

support:

J. Benjamin Younger MD, Executive Director

Robert W. Rebar MD, Associate Executive Director

American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

1209 Montgomery Highway
Birmingham, Alabama 35216-2809

 

Joyce Zeitz
Executive Administrator

Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)
1209 Montgomery Highway
Birmingham, AL 35216

 

financial support:

Grant of the German Research Society DFG

(central public funding organization for academic research in Germany)

Grant of the B.Braun, Melsungen Company

Online lectures

online-lectures

Online publications

online-papers

Publications

publications

Contact 

Markus S. Kupka MD, PhD

 

Kinderwunschzentrum Altonaer Strasse

im Gynaekologicum Hamburg

Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum GbR

Altonaer Str. 59

D - 20357 Hamburg