Ehrich (born 5 January 1946) is a German pediatric doctor in the fields of nephrology and tropical medicine, professor emeritus and Former Head of the Department of Paediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases at the Children’s Hospital, Hannover Medical School, in Hannover, Germany.
He studied medicine from 1965 to 1971 at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
He performed in 1971 to 1972 a postgraduate study at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, UK and received the Diploma in Clinical Medicine of the Tropics.
His clinical responsibilities include paediatric nephrology, hepato-gastroenterology, endocrinology, tropical diseases and metabolic disorders.
His research activities are dealing with kidney diseases[1] in Europe and in the Tropics,[2] laboratory diagnosis of renal diseases,[3] solid organ transplantation,[4] metabolic disorders, as well as diversity of health care services in 46 European countries.