docs who act with charity
Dr. Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau[1] NQA, HPk, HI (born 9 September 1929) is a German–Pakistani[2] nun and a member of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary who has devoted the last 50 years of life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. In 1996, Pakistan was declared by the World Health Organization to have controlled leprosy, one of the first countries in Asia to achieve this goal.[3] Continue reading Ruth Pfau
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant on December 3, 1967,[1][2] and the second overall heart transplant. Continue reading Christiaan Barnard
Amalia Fleming, Lady Fleming (née Koutsouri-Vourekas; 28 June 1912 – 26 February 1986) was a Greek physician, activist and politician. Continue reading Amalia Fleming
Apostol Arsache (in Romanian) or Apostolos Arsakis (Greek: Απόστολος Αρσάκης; 1792–1874) was a Greek–Romanian politician and philanthropist. He was one of the major benefactors of 19th-century Greece,[2] while at the same time he became a leading political figure in Romania. Continue reading Apostol Arsache
Christian Wenk was profesional cyclist when he had a severe accident with a cross section paralysis. Nevertheless he is national trainer for the Swiss handbiking team, plays piano and much more… Continue reading Christian Wenk
Perri Klass is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine, relationships between doctors and patients, and children and literacy. She is the author of both fiction and nonfiction novels, stories, essays, and journalism. Continue reading Perri Klass
Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (née Schulz; born 20 April 1946) is a German doctor and politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), she was president of the People’s Chamber of East Germany from April to October 1990. As such, she served as acting head of state of East Germany until its merger into West Germany in October. After the reunification of Germany, she served in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Monika Hauser (born 24 May 1959 in Thal, Switzerland)[1] is a Swiss-born Italian physician gynecologist and humanitarian. She spent her youth in the Swiss village of Thal, Saint Gallen, in German Switzerland, before continuing her medical studies in Innsbruck, Austria. At the conclusion of her medical studies, she spent 15 years in Cologne, Germany, and this is where she began working on behalf of female victims of violence in warzones. To this end, she travelled to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Congo, Liberia and Israel, with the organisation Medica Mondiale, which she founded. Continue reading Monika Hauser
Christiane Paul (born 8 March 1974 in Berlin–Pankow) is a German film, television and stage actress. Continue reading Christiane Paul
Irene Epple-Waigel (born 18 June 1957) is a German former alpine skier. She won a total of 11 Alpine Skiing World Cup races and two World Cups, in giant slalom and combined (both in 1982). She also won a silver medal at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in giant slalom. In the 1978 FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen she won the silver medal in the downhill. On 9 January 1983 she won the first women’s World Cup Super-G race, held in Verbier. Continue reading Irene Epple
Heyo Eckel (* 8. Februar 1935 in Berlin) is a German radiologist and had been working in the health politics. Besides he was co-founder of a foundation to help children of Tschernobyl and he assists prisoners of a prison near Göttingen.
Heyo Eckel (* 8. Februar 1935 in Berlin) ist ein deutscher Radiologe und ärztlicher Standespolitiker. Er war Mitbegründer der Stiftung “Kinder von Tschernobyl” und betreut immer noch die Gefangenen einer Justizvollzugsanstalt nahe Göttingen. Continue reading Heyo Eckel
They practise in Buchen (Odenwald) and have a charity project in Ghana where they renovated the school, organised solar equipment and had a girls project. Continue reading Kwasi Adjei + Klaus Hahnfeldt
Kathrin S. Peters is well-known as guest in talk shows and she has presented a program for the north German TV NDR for five years. Continue reading Kathrin S. Peters
Friedrich Joseph Haass (Russian: Фёдор Петрович Гааз, Fyodor Petrovich Gaaz; August 10, 1780 – August 16, 1853) was the “holy doctor of Moscow”. Born in Bad Münstereifel, as a member of Moscow’s governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system. During the last nine years before his death he spent all of his assets to run a hospital for homeless people. He died in Moscow. Twenty thousand people attended his funeral at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Continue reading Friedrich Joseph Haass
Born 24.1.1925 in Engelhartszell/Donau. died 9.November 2013 Medical studies in Innsbruck/Austria.
In the 60-ies he supported his sister Käthe Recheis who is a noted childrens book author in a beneficial association which supports own schools for north american indians see wikipedia where you can find his name. Continue reading Romed Recheis
Antje-Katrin Kühnemann (before divorce Antje Schaeffer-Kühnemann, * 22. Februar 1945 in Herzberg am Harz) is a German doctor and TV moderator and journalist, she studied 2 years of singing as well.
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Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and physician. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the center-right Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments. In 2010, the Jerusalem Post considered Bernard Kouchner the 15th most influential Jew in the world.[1] Since 2015 Kouchner is workstream leader for the AMU (Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine), where he contributes his expertise in healthcare. Continue reading Bernhard Kouchner
Jonathan Max Mann (July 30, 1947 – September 2, 1998) was an American physician who was an administrator for the World Health Organization, and spearheaded much early AIDS research in the 1980s. He was co-founder of the charity organisation DoctorsOfTheWorld. Continue reading Jonathan Mann
They are practising in a doctors office for travel medicine and they are doing the very best to convince the patients by travelling all around the globe to collect their own experiences. Continue reading Danielle Gyurech & Julian Schilling
Heinz-Horst Deichmann (* 30. September 1926 in Essen; † 2. Oktober 2014 Essen) was a German entrepreneur who founded the biggest Shoe shop chain of Europe. He was well known for his social engagement and received several prizes for this. He also studied theology.
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Robert Lee “Bobby” Satcher, Jr. (born September 22, 1965) is an American physician, chemical engineer, and NASA astronaut.[3] He became the first orthopedic surgeon in space during STS-129.[4] He participated in 2 spacewalks during STS-129, accumulating 12hrs 19min of EVA time. Satcher holds two doctorates (Ph.D., M.D.) and has received numerous awards and honors as a surgeon and engineer. He is married and has two children. Bobby Satcher enjoys running, scuba diving, and reading.
Alexander Ehlers is consulting the health care companies in all relevant law questions and political questions of the health care system. He is holding the “Deutscher Arztrechtpreis 2002” (German medical doctor law prize). Continue reading Alexander P.F. Ehlers
Maurus Fischer became goldsmith first, then changed for the medical profession. Since his childhood he made music, learnt clarinet and then got more interested in guitar playing. Continue reading Maurus Fischer
Dyckhoff-Karki is in the board of the welfare organisation SWAN and working for Nepalese women and children. The organisation has re-opened schools and sponsored projects and micro-financing for women to inforce their independence in the patriarchalic society of Nepal. Continue reading Barbara Dyckhoff-Karki