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In 1973, when Rudolf Frey hosted an international symposium on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems in Mainz, West Germany, he discussed with me his ideas for what later became the Club of Mainz: A group of emergency-care leaders from all continents who would try to improve emergency and disaster medicine with approaches used by the Club of Rome, i.e., members with clout using research data to convince persons with power about the need for change. The organization’s name stems from the fact that Rudolf Frey was founding chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In the fall of 1976, Frey invited about ten enthusiasts of acute medicine to meet in Geneva, Switzerland, with international agencies concerned with disaster medicine. Immediately following these meetings the group went to Mainz and developed the Club’s objectives and bylaws.
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Safar, P. (1985). The Club of Mainz. In: Manni, C., Magalini, S.I. (eds) Emergency and Disaster Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69262-8_4
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