Gerhard Kienle Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine at Witten/Herdecke University
The Gerhard Kienle Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine is an endowed chair at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany named after the physician Gerhard Kienle. The chair is located at the Herdecke Community Hospital. Funding is provided by the Software AG Foundation. The chair was founded in 1996.
It was established in 1993 for Peter Matthiessen, who had previously been commissioned by the German government to conduct the first academic survey of complementary medicine in Germany "unconventional medical directions (UMR)" and "unconventional methods of cancer treatment (UMK)"[1], continued this, and was then one of the founders of the Dialogforum Pluralismus in der Medizin.[2] He was also a co-founder of the University of Witten/Herdecke.[1][3] Throughout his life, he advocated pluralism of methods and theories in medicine.[4]