Andreas Flach

Andreas Flach (born July 4, 1921 in Beyharting , Upper Bavaria, † October 30, 2006 ) was a German pediatric surgeon . He is the founder of the pediatric surgery department at the University Clinic Tübingen.

Life

Flach studied medicine in Kiel, Tübingen and Munich. He passed his state examination in Tübingen in 1944. In Kiel he worked under Wilhelm Anschütz and Robert Wanke , he completed his surgical training in Neumünster and in 1952 he was certified as a specialist in surgery . During his surgical activity, he dealt extensively with intubation and anesthesia methods, so that he was the first doctor in Schleswig-Holstein to receive specialist certification in anesthesiology .

After moving to the Tübingen University Surgical Clinic under Walter Dick in 1956 , he increasingly focused on pediatric surgery. He completed his habilitation in 1961. This was followed by further training in pediatric surgery with Max Grob in Zurich. After his return to Tübingen, the pediatric surgery department was established there. Flach received the newly created chair for pediatric surgery in 1966. In 1986 he retired.

science

His early scientific work dealt mainly with anesthesia methods in surgery. Its pediatric surgery research dealt with pectus excavatum , reflux nephropathy , biliary atresia , liver tumors and the short bowel syndrome .

Scientific societies

He was a member of the German Society for Pediatric Surgery , of which he was President from 1979 to 1973 and of which he received the Fritz Rehbein Medal of Honor in 2006. In 1976 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian 1979 Swiss Society for Pediatric Surgery.

literature

• Communications from the German Society for Pediatric Surgery , from: European Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2006; 16: 142-146

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Flach in the catalog of the German National Library