Dr. med. Florian Beiglböck

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Dr. Florian Beiglböck has been a member of the WFDF Medical and Anti-Doping Committee since 2011. He began playing Ultimate in 1988, joining Groove connection while attending university in Vienna and playing with Wall City after moving to Berlin in 1991. He has participated in around 15 European and World Championships with his clubs and the Austrian national team, from Open to Great Grand Masters divisions. After receiving his Approbation in 1998, he worked in
different hospitals and specialized in internal medicine and also as an emergency doctor. He developed an interest in endocrinology and diabetes and completed his training in 2007. Since 2008, Dr. Beiglböck has been working in outpatient internal medicine/endocrinology care. As of July 2022, he is a partner at the Hormone Center Heidelberg. His areas of expertise include all thyroid diseases, as well as osteology, andrology, and diabetology, and he also works with transsexual and intersexual patients. Outside of his medical practice, he is very active in the care of obese people and has actively helped to establish the Karlsruhe Obesity Center and the Rhine-Neckar Obesity Network. He has also founded a foundation to support Frisbee sport in Karlsruhe, especially among youth. Dr. Beiglböck received his PhD at the Free
University of Berlin in Dermatology (Cum laude) and also did his medical studies at the University of Vienna. He and his wife live in Karlsruhe, Germany and two of his three children are active Ultimate players.

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