Professor Dr Martin Exner

Managing director of the Center for Hygiene and Microbiology,Director, Hygiene-Institue of Hygiene and Public Healtht,WHO-Collaborating –Center for Health Promoting Water Managment and Risk Communication, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- University of Bonn, Germany

Professor Dr Martin Exner is a leading European expert in environmental and public health hygiene and has a wide-ranging involvement in hygiene policy in Germany.

Graduating in medicine from the University of Bonn in 1977, Professor Exner first became involved in public hygiene as scientific assistant at the Hygiene-Institute of the University in Bonn.

In 1986, Professor Exner became Department Head of Transmissible Diseases and Environmental Hygiene of Cologne Health Department and during the period of 1988 to 1994, he was Managing Director of the Hygiene-Institut des Ruhrgebeites in Gelsenkirchen. In 1994 Professor Exner became Professor for Hygiene at the medical faculty of the University of Bonn and since that time has also been Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Public Health of Bonn.

In addition to university assignments in research and lecturing, Professor Exner devotes much of his time to environmental hygiene issues, including water and hospital hygiene. Other areas of expertise include food hygiene, general epidemic hygiene, home hygiene and social hygiene. Professor Exner is also very interested in community health matters such as hygiene in schools and kindergartens which directly relate to the health of the family, as well the spread of infections resulting from new, emerging pathogens.

As well as his positions in the university in Bonn as dean for study and teaching in the medical faculty, Professor Exner has widespread involvement and responsibilities associated with other hygiene organisations, particularly in Germany. These include:

Chairman of the German Drinking WaterHygiene Committee of theGerman Environmental Protection Agenc, Berlin

Chairman of the Disinfection Committee of the German Association for Hygiene and Microbiology

President of the German Society of Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Public Health

Vice Chairman of the Professional Association of Medical Practitioners for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine

Member of the German Hospital Hygiene Committee of the Robert-Koch-Institute, Berlin

Member of Indoor Pollution Commissions of the German Environmental Protection Agency

Vice Chairman of the Environmental Hygiene Division of the German Association for Hygiene and Microbiology

Professor Exner has published widely on the subject of public health and hygiene and is also currently Advisory Board member of the journals Hygiene und Medizin, Das Gesundheitswesen, International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Journal of Water and Health.

Publications related to hygiene 1997/1998

Dietlein E, Exner M, Dietlein M (1998) Hygienische Maßnahmen zur Verhütung einer Übertragung von HIV und von opportunistischen Infektionen im medizinischen Bereich. In: J L'age-Stehr, EB Helm, AIDS und die Vorstadien, Springer Sektion VII 1-34

Engelhart S, Exner M (1998) Invasive Aspergillose. In: Beck EG, Eikmann T, Tilkes F: Hygiene in Krankenhaus und Praxis, ecomed Verlagsgesellschaft, Landsberg

Gebel J, Kirsch A, Exner M, Gundermann KO (1998) Aufgaben und Perspektiven der Desinfektionsmittel-Kommission der DGHM. Hygiene und Mikrobiologie 1, 9-14

Kramer MH, Lauenstein Th, Gebel J, Brühl P, Exner M (1998) Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Schleimhautantiseptik bei Gleitmittelanwendung vor transurethralen Eingriffen. HygMed 23, (10) 401-403

Dietlein E, Exner M, (1997) Hygienisch-bakteriologische Überwachung. In: Botzenhart K (Hrsg.): Hygiene im Krankenhaus, Gustav-Fischer-Verlarg, Stuttgart

Engelhart S, Hanfland J, Gilges S, Krizek L, Glasmacher A, Exner, M (1997) Untersuchungen zur Exposition hämatoonkologischer Patienten gegenüber Aspergillus-Konidien, Hyg Med 22 Suppl. 1 5-10

Engelhart S, Exner M (1997) Bestimmung von mikrobiologischen Innenraumkontaminationen. In: Handbuch Schadstoffe in Innenräumen. VDI-Bildungswerk GmbH, Dusseldorf

Exner M (1997) Legionellose. In: Beck EG, Eikmann T (Hrsg.): Hygiene in Krankenhaus und Praxis, ecomed, Landsberg/Lech, 2. Erg.Lfg. 1/97, I-18,1-18

Exner M (1997) Grundlagen der Infektionssurveillance. Das Gesundheitswesen 59/12

Exner M (1997) Infektionsrisiken in der zahnärztlichen Praxis, Hohensteine Report: Praxisnahe Wissenschaft 2, 17-22

Exner M, Dietlein E (1997) Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In: Hofmann F (Hrsg.): Infektiologie. ecomed, Landsberg/Lech, 20. Erg. Lfg. 3/97, IV-1.37,1-10

Exner M, Gornik V (1997) Kryptosporidose. In: Beck EG, Eikmann T (Hrsg): Hygiene in Krankenhaus und Praxis, ecomed, Landsberg/Lech, 2. Erg. Lfg. 1/97, I-19, 1-6

Exner, M. und Gornik, V. Cryptosporidiosis. Bundesgesundheitsblatt 40, 475-484

Gornik V. und Exner M (1997) Verhalten von Mikroorganismen und Viren bei der Trinkwasseraufbereitung: Cryptosporidium sp. DVGW-Schriftenreihe Wasser 91, 173-204

Hansis M, Dorau B, Hirner A, Exner M, Krizel L, von Hagen C, Arens, S, Herzing H (1997) Änderungen des Hygienestandards und der Infektionsrate in einem neuen OP-Trakt. Hyg Med 22/5, 225-238

Pleischl S, Wenchel HM, Arnold G, Exner M (1997) Einsatz von Ag- und Cu-Ionen (Tarn-Pure-System) zur Reduktion von Legionellenkontaminationen in dem Gebäude einer Reha-klinik – ein Erfahrungsbericht. In: Straube E: Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, Abstract-Band Oktober 1997, 38, Einhorn-Presse-Verlag, Reinbek

Schoenen D, Botzenhart K, Exner M, Feuerpfeil I, Hoyer O, Sacré C (1997) Vermeidung einer Übertragung von Cryptosporidien und Giardien mit dem Wasser, Bundesgesundheitsblatt 40, 466-475