Career
Ollenschläger is a certified pharmacist and general internist. He has a pharmaceutical doctorate from the University of Münster (1977), a medical doctorate from the University of Giessen (1982), and the venia legendi from the University of Cologne (1990). Günter Ollenschläger worked as a research pharmacist from 1975 until 1981, and as a university physician from 1983 until 1990, working in the fields of pharmacokinetics, tumor related malnutrition, and metabolism.
Ollenschläger joined the German Medical Association as director of Continuing Medical Education from 1990 until 1995.
From 1995 until 2014 he was founding head of the German Agency for Quality in Medicine. In that capacity he introduced a variety of projects to develop evidence based healthcare and knowledge management as well as patient safety in German healthcare:
German Program for evidence based medical guidelines,
German Guideline Clearinghouse,
German Clearinghouse for Patient Information in order to promote scientifically based shared decision making,
National Program for Disease Management Guidelines.
Program for Evidence based Patient Guidelines
Physicians" Program for Patient Safety and Medical Error Prevention. He was chief editor of the German Journal for Evidence and Quality in Healthcare ZEFQ from 1995 until 2015.
In April 2015 Günter Ollenschläger became editor-in-chief of the medical encyclopedia DEXIMED, the German version of the Norwegian e-book NEL.