Doctor Bernhard Ludvik

About the Doctor

Membership

• 1st Secretary of the Austrian Diabetes Society 1996-1997

• Vice President of the Austrian Obesity Society 1996-1998, 2002-2003, 2006-2007

• 1. Secretary of the Federation of the International DONAU-SYMPOSIA on Diabetes Mellitus 1996-1999

• 2nd Secretary of the Austrian Society for Internal Medicine 2005

• 2nd Secretary of the Austrian Society for Internal Medicine 2002

• President of the Austrian Diabetes Society 2008-2009

• Member of the Scientific Committee of IFSO (International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity)

• Member of the international scientific committee of the 20th ECO (European Congress on Obesity) 2013 in Liverpool

• Member of the Supreme Health Council 2017-2019

• 2nd Secretary of the Austrian Society for Internal Medicine 1995

• Assistant Editor of "Diabetologia" 1998-2003

• President of the Austrian Obesity Society 1998-2000, 2014-2015

• Member of the local organizing committee of the 50th EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) 2014 in Vienna

• President of the Diabetes Initiative Austria 2009-2018

• Vice President of the Austrian Diabetes Society 2006-2007

Publications

• Ludvik B (Ed): Risk factor diabetes - concepts for a long-term problem. Uni-Med-Verlag Bremen, 1st ed. 2004

• Ludvik B, Toplak H: Drug therapy of obesity. Springer Verlag Vienna, 1st ed. 2006 Mihaljevic K, Feffer S, Ludvik B: Eating with fun + being active with moderation. How to escape the metabolic syndrome. Publishing house of physicians, 1st ed. 2006

• Pfeiffer A, Ludvik B, Kinzl J: Forever thin. What doctors really recommend. CD. Galila Hörbuchverlag. 1st ed. 2006

• Prager R, Abrahamian H, Kautzky-Willer A, Ludvik B, Schütz-Fuhrmann I, Weitgasser R: Diabetes management with insulin analogues. UNI-MED Verlag AG, 1st edition, 2008

• Ludvik B, Fasching P, Lechleitner M, Prager R, Weitgasser R and Maierhofer W: Understanding diabetes and its consequences - health guidebook. MedMedia Verlags- und Mediaservice GesmbH. 2nd extended new edition 2011

• Kainz E, Ludvik B: Nutrition in diabetes. Maudrich Verlag. 2015

• Lötsch B, Russolg E, Ludvik B: Nutrition in bariatric surgery. Maudrich Verlag. 2017

Certificates

• 1992 Research Promotion Award of the First Austrian Savings Bank; presented by the Austrian Medical Association

• 1992 - 1994 Max Kade Foundation Scholarship - research stay at the University of San Diego, California

• 1995 Hoechst Prize - presented by the Dean of the Medical Faculty

Education

• 1985 Doctorate degree (Dr.med.univ.)

• 1995 Habilitation in internal medicine

• 2004 ÖAK (Austrian Medical Association) Diploma in Geriatrics

• 2004 ÖAK (Austrian Medical Association) Diploma in Palliative Medicine

Experience

• 1996 Specialist in Endocrinology and Metabolism

• 1991 Specialist in Internal Medicine

• 1985 - 1991 Resident at the II Medical University Hospital Vienna

• 1992 - 1994 Research Fellow at the University of California San Diego

• 1998 Associate University Professor

• 2009 - 2014 Deputy Head of the Clinical Department of Endocrinology of the III. Medical University Hospital, AKH Vienna

• Head of the Karl Landsteiner Institute for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases

• Chief Physician of the 1st Medical Department of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology of the Landstraße Clinic

Services

• Diabetes mellitus; gestational diabetes

• Overweight; obesity

• Nutritional medicine

• Dyslipidemia

• High blood pressure

• Diseases of the thyroid gland

• Hormonal diseases