Manfred Dietel received his diploma in medicine (1973) and was promoted to assistant professor (1980) from the University of Hamburg. In 1983 he became full professor of anatomical and surgical pathology. Until 1989, when he became Director of the Institute of Pathology of the University of Kiel, he was member of various special research groups and was named member of the \"Medizinausschuss des Wissenschaftsrats\" of Germany in 1990. After becoming Director of the Institute of Pathology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Charité he was named Dean of the Medical Faculty Charité, Humboldt-University of Berlin in 1997. He has been Medical Director and Head of the Board of Directors of the Charité from 1999 on and was elected President of the 2001-Congress of the European Society of Pathology. He is member of the Editorial Board of the WHO-Series "Classification of Tumours". |