| Gunter
H. Ruetter
monitoringforce.com
Gunter H. Ruetter, M.D, Ph.D., is the
President of the Monitoring Force Group, an international
full service life sciences Contract Research Organization
[CRO], currently present in 27 countries, conducting phase
I to IV clinical trials for the pharmaceutical industry in
all therapeutic areas as well as consulting in defense and
disaster medicine. Dr. Ruetter founded the company in Muenster,
Germany in 1995, focusing on quality and speed in clinical
operations. Now based in Washington, DC he is responsible
for global business development and general management of
the organization. Prior to this Dr. Ruetter was assigned as
Medical Director and advanced to General Manager in the German
pharmaceutical industry. This followed a distinguished career
in general and trauma surgery rising to the position of Senior
Surgeon at the University of Marburg.
Dr. Ruetter studied law, philosophy,
economics and medicine at the universities of Mainz, Cologne,
Muenster, Mannheim and Heidelberg, receiving his M.D. from
the University of Heidelberg and his medical license from
the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1982. He obtained his Ph.D.
in cyto-pathology in the German Cancer Research Center in
Heidelberg in 1988. Besides numerous specialties in surgery,
emergency medical service and sports medicine, Dr. Ruetter
complemented his medical training with executive business
courses at the St. Gallen Business School in Switzerland.
Currently, he is completing the degree of a European Master
in Disaster Medicine at the University of Eastern Piedmont
in Novara, Italy.
Apart from his business activities, Dr.
Ruetter is Colonel (Medical Corps) in the German Joint Medical
Service Air Force Reserves and assigned as a Branch Chief
in the Federal Ministry of Defense. He is also Chairman of
the Joint Medical Reserve Forces Organization and Delegate
of the Interallied Confederation of Medical Reserve Officers.
Dr. Ruetter has been in demand as distinguished
consultant and lecturer of medical entrepreneurship and clinical
research at several chambers of commerce, medical service
and civil-military cooperation, disaster and defense medicine
at the Netherlands Defense College and the Academy of the
German Armed Forces Joint Medical Service, after his career
as a lecturer and scientist at the University of Marburg and
the German Cancer Research Center.
He is an active member of various academic
societies, professional and military associations like the
Drug Information Association, World Association for Disaster
and Emergency Medicine, German Association for Military Medicine
and Pharmacy, German Association for Surgery, German Association
for Trauma Surgery, German Disaster Medicine Association and
the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
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