Werner Mendling (WM)

was the first gynecologist in Germany, who investigated vulvovaginal candidosis, who has written in 1987 the first textbook “Die Vulvovaginalkandidose”, which was translated in 1988 in english, italian and spanish language and who habilitated with experimental and clinical investigations on immunological investigations of vulvovaginal candidosis. He worked in this time scientifically together with Dr. Manfred Plempel, the inventor of Clotrimazole in the Pharma Research Center of BAYER Company in Wuppertal-Aprath. WM has contacted there Prof. Christina Krasemann, a medical microbiologist and expert for anaerobe bacteria. He began with her clinical investigations on the vaginal microbiology in patients with bacterial vaginosis and on the anaerobe and aerobe bacterial composition of salpingitis with swabs from the fallopian tube during laparoscopy and direct anaerobe cultivation within minutes. Since 2000 in Berlin, he was invited to cooperate with the bacteriologist Dr. Sonja Swidsinski and the gastroenterologist Dr. Alexander Swidsinski, an expert for polymicrobial biofilms. They described in 2005 for the first time polybacterial biofilms in bacterial vaginosis and reveiled in 2010 by partner investigations their sexual transmission.

Since 1987 Member of Rotary International (PHF, PP).

Author of books, more than 200 scientific publications, hundreds of lections and chairs and since 1981 more than 350 certificated seminars for gynecological infections with microscopic training with about 10,000 participating gynecologists in Germany and Europe.