Salzburg (pps) Dr. Jörg Ellermeyer is the new chairman of the Medical Working Group of the International Luge Federation (FIL). This staffing decision was made by the FIL Executive Board at its spring meeting in Salzburg, Austria. Ellermeyer will be successor to Dr. Volker Jägemann, who had resigned from this position for personal reasons.

At the same time, Dr. Jägemann also resigned as head team physician of the German national federation. Dr. Ellermeyer has been working for the FIL for many years and is currently a senior physician at the clinical center “Klinikum Berchtesgadener Land”.