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Yearb Med Inform 2017; 26(01): 9-15
DOI: 10.15265/IY-2017-003
Editorial
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

On Contributing to the Progress of Medical Informatics as Publisher

Congratulations to IMIA Honorary Fellow Dieter Bergemann on his 80th Birthday!
R. Haux
1   Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Germany
m   Past Editor-in-Chief of Methods of Information in Medicine
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
A. Geissbuhler
2   Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
J. Holmes
3   Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Y   Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
M.-C. Jaulent
4   Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13, LIMICS, UMR_S 1142, Paris, France
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
S. Koch
5   Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Health Informatics Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
M   Editor-in-Chief of Methods of Information in Medicine
,
C. A. Kulikowski
6   Department of Computer Science, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, USA
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
C. U. Lehmann
8   Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
A   Editor-in-Chief of Applied Clinical Informatics
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
A. T. McCray
7   Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
m   Past Editor-in-Chief of Methods of Information in Medicine
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
B. Séroussi
4   Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13, LIMICS, UMR_S 1142, Paris, France
9   AP-HP, Hôpital Tenon, Département de Santé Publique, Paris, France
Y   Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
L. F. Soualmia
4   Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13, LIMICS, UMR_S 1142, Paris, France
10   Normandie University, Rouen University, Rouen, France
Y   Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
,
J. H. van Bemmel
11   Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
m   Past Editor-in-Chief of Methods of Information in Medicine
y   Past Editor-in-Chief of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
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11 September 2017 (online)

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Summary

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.

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