Andres Giedion

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Andres Giedion (born May 2, 1925 in Munich ; † January 15, 2013 in Zurich- Doldertal) was a Swiss pediatrician and radiologist and a pioneer in pediatric radiology in Switzerland.

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Andres Giedion was born on May 2, 1925 as a Swiss abroad in Munich . He was the second child of the architect Sigfried Giedion and the art historian Carola Giedion-Welcker.

After graduating from high school in 1945 type A with humanistic language sequence in Zurich, he completed his studies in human medicine in 1950 with the state examination and received the Dr. med. at the University of Zurich with the topic: The hemorrhagic encephalitis postvaccinalis.

After further training as a pediatrician from 1951 to 1954 at the Boston Children's Hospital , he completed further training in radiology from 1954 to 1958 at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital . From 1958 to 1959 he again learned pediatric radiology at the Boston Children's Hospital and in 1959 became head of radiology at the Children's Hospital in Zurich. In 1968 he was at the University of Zurich with the work: natural history and diagnostic significance of a disturbance of the endochondral growth: cone- habilitation . In 1969 a radiology department was opened at the children's hospital in Zurich , and in 1973 Giedion was appointed adjunct professor. In 1977 he served as president of the European Society of Pediatric Radiology (ESPR) and in 1979 became chief physician of radiology at the Children's Hospital Zurich. He retired in 1990 and co-founded the Bone Dysplasia Society in Bad Honnef in 1991 .

As namesake

The following are named after him:

The Swiss Society for Radiology awards the Andres Giedion Prize , which was founded in 2005 to promote young talent in pediatric radiology .

Others

He was an honorary member of: Swiss Society for Radiology (SGR) , Society for Pediatric Radiology (GPR) , European Society of Pediatric Radiology (ESPR) , Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) , Royal Irish Society of Radiology (RISR) , Australasian Society of Pediatric Imaging (ASPI) and the Toronto Society of Radiology (TSR) .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ saez
  2. ^ A. Giedion: cone epiphyses. Natural history and diagnostic significance of an endochondral growth disorder. In: R. Glaumer, A. Rüttiman, P. Thurn, E. Vogler (editor): Results of medical radiology. 1968, Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 59–124, habilitation thesis
  3. ^ Child and Radiology 2006 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ SGR ( Memento from December 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Giedion, Andres
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pediatrician and radiologist and pioneer in pediatric radiology in Switzerland
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2013
Place of death Zurich- Doldertal