Wolfgang Dähnert, M.D.

Wolfgang Dähnert was born in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium High School in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, in 1966 he enlisted into the German Air Force for four years. After his discharge from the armed services he studied medicine at the Heinrich-Heine Universität in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, for his preclinical years and at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, for his clinical years. He graduated from medical school in 1975 and received his doctor of medicine degree shortly thereafter based on his dissertation “Pulse Flow Photocytometry of Prostate Punch Biopsies”. A one-year rotating internship in urology, internal medicine and sports medicine at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität and at the municipal Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinik in Wiesbaden was followed by a one-year residency in general surgery at the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Krankenhaus in Mainz, Germany. In 1978 he switched to begin a residency in radiology at the municipal and teaching hospital in Darmstadt, Hesse, under the directorship of Prof. H.K. Deininger. He continued his education in diagnostic and therapeutic radiology at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz under the directorship of Prof. Manfred Thelen and Prof. Rolf W. Günther receiving his German certification for radiology in 1982. Dr. Dähnert started a 2-year fellowship in ultrasound and computed tomography at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1984 under the leadership of Roger Sanders / Ulrike Hamper and Stanley Siegelman / Elliot Fishman and was appointed Clinical Instructor in 1986. In 1985 he sat for the federal licensing exam, and in 1987 took his oral exam in diagnostic radiology in Louisville, Kentucky. The American Board of Radiology had approved a 2-year fellowship program for him in lieu of a residency in radiology. The foundation of Radiology Review Manual was laid during the three years at Hopkins while preparing for the ABR exam. Between 1987 and 1989 he worked as Assistant Professor of Radiology in ultrasound at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia under Barry Goldberg. During this period in Philadelphia Radiology Review Manual was taken to fruition culminating in the publication of its first edition in 1991. Dr. Dähnert joined Clinical Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine in Phoenix, AZ, in 1989 as director of ultrasound. This group practice of approximately 25 mostly fellowship-trained radiologists served three center city hospitals and their affiliated residency program in radiology, the latter at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, before it ceased operations in 2006 brought about by a fiscally unsustainable management style and culture. In September of 2004 Dr. Dähnert relocated to Green Bay, Wisconsin, joining a group of eight radiologists as part of a multispecialty group practice at Aurora BayCare Medical Center, the northern hub of Aurora Health Care, one of Wisconsin's largest private-sector employers.