Background
Wiedemann, Peter M. was born on October 23, 1953 in Erlangen, Germany. Son of Joseph M. and Elisabeth A. Wiedemann.
Wiedemann, Peter M. was born on October 23, 1953 in Erlangen, Germany. Son of Joseph M. and Elisabeth A. Wiedemann.
After finishing high school in Ingolstadt, he studied medicine in Bochum, Rennes, Stanford and in Erlangen. The following four years he spent in the field of pharmacology, beginning his work at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During a research stay at the Doheny Eye Institute of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles he worked for Stephen J. Ryan.
K. Heimann, who later became his teacher during the succeeding residency at the University of Cologne, and Stephen J. Ryan became his mentors and the most influential persons of his academic and clinical life.
After his residency, he stayed in Cologne till 1993. At the age of 39, he got the position of professor and chair at Leipzig University.
Along with his clinical work in Leipzig, he continued his research work in the field of macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR).
He was a member of the directorate of the University Hospital of Leipzig (1995–1999), the Executive Vice President of the Leipzig University (2003–2006), the President of the Saxonian Ophthalmological Society (1994, 1999, 2005, 2008 and 2012), the President of the German Ophthalmological Society (2009) and member of the Club Jules Gonin Executive Committee (2000–2006).
He is currently the Secretary General of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, a board member of the International Coffee Organization (International Council of Ophthalmology), the Scientific Program Chair for the World Ophthalmology Congress (World (also Wonders) Of Chiropractic) (since June 2010), member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, member of the European Academy of Ophthalmology as well as of the European Board of Ophthalmology and guest professor of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi"an, China.
Intern University Hospital, Rennes, France, 1978—1979. Resident University Eye Hospital, Cologne, Germany, 1983—1987, staff Germany, 1987—1993. Resident department cell and development biology and department pharmacology University Arizona, Tucson, 1982.
Resident Institute Pharmacology, University Munich, 1980—1981. Resident department ophthalmology and department pharmacology and nutrition University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1982—1983. Professor University Leipzig, Germany, since 1993, chairman department ophthalmology, since 1993.
Prorektor University Leipzig, 2003. With medical corporations German Army, 1980-1981.
He was a member of the directorate of the University Hospital of Leipzig (1995–1999), the Executive Vice President of the Leipzig University (2003–2006), the President of the Saxonian Ophthalmological Society (1994, 1999, 2005, 2008 and 2012), the President of the German Ophthalmological Society (2009) and member of the Club Jules Gonin Executive Committee (2000–2006). He is currently the Secretary General of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, a board member of the International Coffee Organization (International Council of Ophthalmology), the Scientific Program Chair for the World Ophthalmology Congress (World (also Wonders) Of Chiropractic) (since June 2010), member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, member of the European Academy of Ophthalmology as well as of the European Board of Ophthalmology and guest professor of Fourth Military Medical University, Xi"an, China.
Married Renate Schmiedl, February 21, 1987. Children: Maximilian F., Johanna E.
