Thomas Reinbold

Overarching research specialisations of the Clinic for Geriatrics at Dortmund Hospital include

• Malnutrition in old age
• Delirium and dementia in old age
• Chronic wounds and diabetes in old age
• Traumatology in old age
• Digitalisation in geriatric medicine

These research specialisations cover various individual aspects:

• Relevance of the nutritional situation in old age
• Assessment methods for the nutritional situation of older people
• Importance of protein-energy malnutrition in old age
• Prevalence and relevance of micronutrient deficiencies in old age
• Nutrition therapy in old age
• Refeeding syndrome in old age
• Measurement of body composition in old age
• Measurement of muscle strength and muscle mass in old age
• Diagnosis, relevance and treatment of sarcopenia
• The association of osteoporosis and sarcopenia
• Diagnosis and treatment of oropharyngeal dysphagia in old age
• Causes of oropharyngeal dysphagia in old age
• Wounds and nutrition in old age
• Sleep disorders and diabetes in old age
• Risk factors for delirium and dementia in elderly patients

Dr med. N. Günther

Other faculty members and associates:

Prof. Dr med. H. Frohnhofen

Dr rer. medic. F.-C. Hanke

Dr med S. Stieglitz

• Nutritional medicine
• Diabetes in old age
• Dementia and delirium in old age
• Geriatric traumatology, wound therapy

06/2000 - 06/2004
Internship and assistant physician at St. Marien Hospital Lünen, Medical Clinic I, Cardiology, Nephrology and Pulmonology, Head Physician Prof. Dr Niehues 
 

07/2004 - 05/2009
Resident at St.-Marien-Hospital Lünen, Medical Clinic II, Gastroenterology, Oncology, Metabolic and Infectious Diseases, Clinic Director Dr B. med. Lenfers

06/2009 - 09/2010
Senior consultant, Medical Clinic II
 

10/2010 - 10/2012
Senior Physician Medical Clinic II
 

11/2012 - 04/2014
Ltd. senior physician, Medical Clinic II
 

05/2014 - 12/2017
Ltd. Senior Physician Medical Clinic II (50%) and Senior Physician Geriatrics (50%) St.-Marien-Hospital Lünen, Chief Physicians Dr A. Gerlach and Dr H. Günther
 

01/2018 - 03/2018
Ltd. senior physician, Medical Clinic II
 

06/2010 - 03/2018
Medical director of the nutrition team at St.-Marien-Hospital Lünen 
 

since 4/2018
Director of the Clinic for Geriatrics at Dortmund Hospital
 

2001
Obtained specialist qualification in radiation protection, updated
 

2002
Obtained specialisation in rescue services
 

05/2004
Completion of studies to become a certified health care economics
 

07/2008
Specialist in internal medicine

06/2009
Degree in nutritional medicine DAEM/DGEM® (German Academy/Society for Nutritional Medicine)
 

10/2010
Acquisition of the additional qualification in emergency medicine
 

04/2011
Acquisition of the additional qualification in diabetology from the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association
 

07/2012
Acquisition of the specialisation in gastroenterology
 

07/2012
Wound expert ICW (Initiative Chronic Wounds)
 

08/2012
Diabetologist DDG (German Diabetes Association)
 

12/2017
Acquisition of the additional qualification in geriatrics 
 

2017
Training as an orthomolecular therapist
 

06/2021
Acquisition of the additional qualification in nutritional medicine Medical Association of Westphalia-Lippe


Doctoral studies

10/2000
Doctoral studies for a doctorate in medicine (Dr med.), overall grade: magna cum laude

Professorship

08/2021
Awarded honorary professorship at the EUFH - University of Applied Sciences for Health | Social Sciences | Education, degree programme Nutrition Therapy/Clinical Nutrition

Chair

12/2022
Acting Head of the Chair of Geriatrics at Witten/Herdecke University

In the model degree programme Medicine (state examination):

• Medicine of ageing and the elderly
• Rehabilitation, physical medicine, naturopathy

In the degree programme Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine:

• Senior dentistry

• Health care economics in nutritional medicine
• Malnutrition
• Geriatrics
• Geriatric traumatology
• Dementia
• Diabetology in old age

Memberships:

• DDG - German Diabetes Society
• DGG - German Society for Geriatrics
• BDEM - Federal Association of German Nutritionists
• VLK - Association of Senior Hospital Doctors
• AGNNW - Working Group of Emergency Doctors in North Rhine-Westphalia
• DGIM - German Society for Internal Medicine
• DGEM - German Society for Nutritional Medicine
• ICW - Initiative for Chronic Wounds
• BV Geriatrie - Federal Association of Geriatrics
• Dortmund Medical Association