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Wolfgang Koenig (born 18 Dezember 1949 in Neuenbürg) is a German cardiologist and university professor. He was assistant medical director at the Department of Internal Medicine II Cardiology, Angiology, Sports medicine and Rehabilitation medicine at the Medical Clinic of the University of Ulm. He is known for his works in the field of evaluation of new biomarkers for cardiological disorders including population genomics and in connection with inflammation, hemostasis and atherosclerosis.

Biography
Koenig studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich from 1969 to 1975. In 1976 he passed the ECFMG in Munich. In 1980 he received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. He spent stays abroad till 1983 and was then head of the MONICA Heart Attack Register of the WHO at the Augsburg Hospital from 1983 to 1986. In 1986 Koenig went to the Medical Clinic at the University of Ulm, where he became an internal medicine in 1989. From 1992 on he was a specialist for cardiology. In this year he was habilitated in Ulm. In 1989 he became associate professor and received the additional title Internal Intensive Care in 2005. From 1995 to 2000 Koenig was executive senior physician at the medical hospital and head of the emergency department. From 2003 to 04 he was head of the intensive care unit and from 2004 to 2005 head of the laboratory of heart catheter. Koenig was senior physician at the Department for Internal Medicine II - Cardiology at the Medical University Hospital of the University of Ulm till March 2015. There he headed the laboratory of biomarkers and the clinical center of studies. Beginning of Apil 2015 he joined the German Heart Center Munich at the Technical University of Munich mainly being scientifically active there.

Scientific contribution
Koenig provided long experience in research work in the range of epidemology of cardiovascular disorders (built up the MONICA Augsburg heart attack register of the WHO). He delivered fundamental contributions to the inflammation hypothesis of atherosclerosis            and to the importance of hemostaseological factors for atherogenesis  as well as to genetics of intermediary phenotypes of atherosclerosis.

He is a member of the executive committee of several clinical studies for innovative cardiometabolic active substances.

Honors

 * Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, FESC (1997, elected)
 * Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, FACC (1998, elected)
 * Clinical Hypertension Specialist of the European Society of Hypertension (2002, elected)
 * Hypertensiologe DHL (2004, elected)
 * Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), FRCP (2005, elected)
 * Fellow of the American Heart Association, FAHA (2006, elected)

Reviewer
Koenig is a reviewer for medical journals. He is also active for national and international research organisations. He is a member of the Editorial Board of "Clinical Chemistry" and "Atherosclerosis" and was Associate Editor of "Atherosclerosis from 2007 to 2014.

Awards and honors

 * 2014 Rudolf Schönheimer Medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Atheroskleroseforschung
 * 2015 Honorary Award, Lecture on Epidemiology of the German Cardiac Society

Publications
Koenig is author and co-autthor of more than 600 publications and more than 500 presentations in the field of clinical cardiology (cardiovascular pharmacology, clinical epdimelogy, heart and circulatory epidemology, hypertension and genetics of cardiovasular disorders).

Publication list ResearchGate

Publication list PubMed (Selection)