Alexander Bernhard
Alexander Bernhard (born November 22, 1927 in Augsburg ) is a German surgeon and university professor .
Life
After elementary school and secondary school in Augsburg, Bernhard studied medicine at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich . There he passed the state examination in 1955. He then worked as an assistant at the Pathological Institute of the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in September 1955, and as an assistant at the Surgical University Hospital in Bonn . From December 1956 to March 1958 Bernhard worked as a research fellow at the Respiratory Center for Poliomyelitis "Rancho Los Amigos", California, USA and at the Department of Surgery at the "White Memorial Hospital", Los Angeles, USA, on respiratory function in polio patients and the extracorporeal circulation in cardiac operations. After his return from the United States, he was an assistant at the Surgical University Clinic in Bonn until 1964, where he mainly devoted himself to thoracic surgery . In 1962 he received the specialist certification for surgery . From October 1964 he worked at the surgical clinic of the Zurich Cantonal Hospital under A. Senning on the transplantation of heart valves .
When Bernhard joined the Surgical University Clinic in Kiel in October 1965 , he was entrusted with the introduction and development of cardiac surgery . In 1967 he received the “ Venia legendi ” in Kiel . In 1972 he became a professor at a scientific university. In 1973 he turned down a call to the chair for cardiac surgery at the Technical University of Aachen . In 1974 Bernhard was appointed full professor of cardiovascular surgery at the University of Kiel and director of the clinic of the same name. He retired in 1993 .
Among decisive pioneering achievements, Bernhard consistently pushed ahead with the development of an institutional, efficient and modern cardiovascular surgery . Since it was founded in 1965, he has succeeded in placing Kiel cardiac surgery in a high-performance area with a demanding surgical program and an active scientific research program.
Clinical and scientific focus
Clinical and scientific focal points in Kiel were the anatomical correction of congenital complex heart malformations, biological heart valve replacement and heart transplantation . The first heart transplant took place in 1986. The longest survival time of a person transplanted in Kiel is 30 years.
Bernhard was a member of several national and international specialist societies and "Corresponding Member" of the Scandinavian Society for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery.
Voluntary work
From 1968 onwards, Bernhard sustainably sponsored cardiac surgery centers in Poland . In 1997 he extended the funding to other heart centers in Eastern Europe through training and further education of numerous doctors in Kiel . It ended in 2012.
Bernhard was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Medical Academy of the Karol Marcinkowski University in Poznan in 2004.
literature
- Bernhard A., Sievers H.-H. Herzklappenprothesen, pp. 47-125 in Kardiovaskulare Chirurgie, Vol. 3., S. Schattauer, Stuttgart - New York, 1990.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martina Drexler: A life without shortness of breath , in: Kieler Nachrichten of January 18, 2016
- ^ Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, point 6: Awards and recognitions awarded by external institutions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernhard, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |