Prof. Dr. med. Petra-Maria Schumm-Dräger

Petra-Maria Schumm-Dräger, Prof. Dr. med.

Medical Director of the Center for Internal Medicine / Fünf Höfe Munich
Clinical focus

Treatment of type 2 diabetes and associated secondary diseases, as well as hormonal and metabolic diseases.

Structured nutrition and lifestyle training programs.

The main areas of internal medicine are endocrinology and diabetology, treating the full range of hormonal disorders, including osteoporosis, obesity and metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2, gestational diabetes and patients with chronic wounds such as diabetic foot syndrome.

According to the ranking of the largest German health magazine, Professor Dr. Schumm-Dräger is one of the ten best therapists in Germany.

Biography
  • 1972–1980: Medical education, University of Frankfurt.
  • 1993-2002: Head of the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Angiology, Head of the Center for Internal Medicine at the University of Frankfurt.
  • In 1995 awarded the academic title “Extraordinary Professor” of internal medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1999-2000: “Limited license to practice medicine” (State: New York, USA) and scientific collaboration with Professor J. Friedman, Rockefeller University, New York.
  • 2002-2016 – head physician of the department of endocrinology, diabetology and angiology at the University Hospital Bogenhausen, Munich.
  • 2002 – Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TU), Klinikum Rechts der Isar.
  • Since 2016 – Medical Director of the Center for Internal Medicine / Fünf Höfe Munich.

Clinical and scientific focus: Clinical and experimental studies of the thyroid gland (autoimmune thyroid diseases, benign and malignant goiter), clinical diabetology (type 2 diabetes mellitus: new therapeutic interventions, early detection and treatment of cardiovascular complications, interdisciplinary/interdisciplinary diabetes therapy in the clinic), polyglandular autoimmune syndrome.