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David Klemperer (born 1953 in Berlin) is a German physician.

Biography
Klemperer studied medicine from 1977 to 1982 in Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf. During his further training as an internist, he worked as an assistant doctor in general internal medicine, oncology and cardiology. From 1991 to 2001, he worked in the Bremen Public Health Service, first as head of the Health Office Bremen-North and then as a consultant for questions of planning, organization and evaluation of regional health care in the Bremen Health Authority. During this time he underwent further training to become a specialist in public health care and acquired the additional qualifications of social medicine and environmental medicine. In 2001 he was appointed Professor of Social Medicine and Public Health at the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg. In 2019 he became emeritus professor. From 2009 to 2011 he was president of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine.

The physician Georg Klemperer is his grandfather's brother, as is the Romanist Victor Klemperer. The conductor Otto Klemperer is the brother of his great-grandfather. The former beach volleyball player David Klempereris his nephew.

Work and research priorities
His research interests include evidence-based professional practice, patient orientation, overuse and underuse of health care services, shared decision making, regional differences in healthcare and conflicts of interest. Klemperer is author of the first German-language publication on evidence-based medicine. His textbook "Sozialmedizin - Public Health - Gesundheitswissenschaften" was published in the 4th edition in 2020.

Committees (selection)

 * Scientific Advisory Board oft the Institute for Quality Assurance and Transparency in Health Care (IQTIG)
 * Scientific Advisory Board AOK Bayern
 * Standing Commission "Guidelines" of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany
 * Choosing Wisely International Roundtable
 * Scientific member of the Advisory Board of the Independent Patient Counselling Service Germany (UPD) according to §65 b Social Code Book V
 * Drug Commission of the German Medical Association (associate member)
 * Expert Committee for Transparency and Independence of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association
 * Speaker of the working group on patient orientation (goal 11a) of the German National Cancer Plan

Publications in English language (selection)

 * Grabitz PR, Friedmann Z, Gepp S, Hess LU, Specht L, Struck M, Tragert S, Walther T, Klemperer D (2019). Conflict of Interest Policies at German medical schools - A long way to go. bioRxiv, 809723. doi:10.1101/809723
 * Härter M, Dirmaier J, Scholl I, Donner-Banzhoff N, Dierks M-L, Eich W, Müller H, Klemperer D, Koch K, Bieber C 2017). The long way of implementing patient-centered care and shared decision making in Germany. ZEFQ 123-124;46-51
 * Saini V, Garcia-Armesto S, Klemperer D, Paris V, Elshaug AG, Brownlee S, Ioannidis JPA, Fisher ES (2017): Drivers of poor medical care. The Lancet. 390(10090), S. 178–190.
 * Klemperer D (2010). Drug Research: Marketing Before Evidence, Sales Before Safety
 * Grote Westrick, Marion; Zich, Karsten; Klemperer, David; Schwenk, Uwe; Nolting, Hans-Dieter, Deckenbach, Bernd; Schiffhorst, Guido (2015). Healthcare Fact Check. The Development of Regional Variations in German Health Care: Bertelsmann Foundation.
 * Donner-BanzhoffN, Bastian H, Coulter A, Elwyn G, Jonitz G, Klemperer D, Ludwig WD (2011. How Can Better Evidence Be Delivered? In: Gigerenzer G, Gray MJ: Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
 * Krickeberg K, Klemperer D. Social Risk Factors. in: Krämer A, Kretzschmar M, Krickeberg K (Eds) (2010). Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health. Springer, New York