Andreas Büttner (medical doctor)

Andreas Büttner (born May 29, 1961 in Heggen ) is a German forensic doctor .

Career

After graduating from high school at Munich's Luitpold-Gymnasium in 1981 and doing his civilian service in the corpse collection service in pathology, Büttner learned the profession of medical dissection and dissection assistant at the Berlin - Neukölln hospital . From 1988 Büttner studied medicine in Munich . After the state examination and doctorate with his dissertation on examinations of cortical blood vessels with HIV- infected patients in 1994, he was an assistant doctor at the neurosurgery department at Großhadern Clinic .

From 1997 he worked at the Munich Forensic Medicine Institute headed by Wolfgang Eisenmenger ; after his habilitation with Eisenmenger in 2004 with a paper on the effects of drugs on the central nervous system as a private lecturer .

In March 2009 Büttner took over the chair for forensic medicine at the University of Rostock .

Büttner is particularly interested in forensic medicine significant changes in the brain, for example as a result of drug abuse; he is one of the few medical experts on the effects of drug use. In his investigations in drug users, Büttner was able to determine a decrease in the number of nerve cells and their connections; the blood vessels would also be damaged. On the basis of his experience with young people using drugs, but also with patients over 40 years of age, he warns against entry-level drugs such as cannabis .

Büttner is chairman of the ethics committee at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock (status: November 2012).

Memberships

German Society for Forensic Medicine
German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy
International Society of Neuropathology
Society for Pediatric Pathology
Association of German Taxidermists

Web links

Literature by and about Andreas Büttner in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Andreas Büttner in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
U. Krüger and R. Wegener: On the history of the Institute for Forensic Medicine ( Memento from April 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Rostock

Dataset on and literature about Andreas Büttner (medical practitioner) in the state bibliography MV - No hit, December 7, 2009

Individual evidence

↑ Juliane Hinz: The silent patients ( memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). svz.de from February 23, 2010, accessed on November 15, 2015.
^ Vicious circle of drug addiction ( Memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Scientia - the knowledge magazine for Northern Germany from October 29, 2011, accessed on November 15, 2015.
↑ Ethics Committee at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock . University of Rostock, accessed on November 15, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Büttner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German forensic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heggen (Finnentrop)

[1] Juliane Hinz: The silent patients ( memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). svz.de from February 23, 2010, accessed on November 15, 2015.

[2] Vicious circle of drug addiction ( Memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). Scientia - the knowledge magazine for Northern Germany from October 29, 2011, accessed on November 15, 2015.

[3] Ethics Committee at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock . University of Rostock, accessed on November 15, 2015.