Bruno Watschinger (nephrologist)

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Bruno Watschinger (born June 14, 1920 in Linz ; † June 28, 2017 ) was an Austrian doctor and university professor .

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Watschinger grew up in Perg , graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Linz in 1938 and studied at the medical faculties in Vienna and Prague from 1940 . In 1945 he received his doctorate from Charles University in Prague . This was followed by regular training in hospitals in Grieskirchen and Linz. For training as a specialist in internal medicine , he switched to Franz Theodor von Brücke at the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Vienna as an assistant on the advice of Karl Fellinger, and to Karl Fellinger in 1950 at the II. Medical University Clinic. His scientific focus was on topics such as kidney function diagnostics , hypertension and the clinical effects of various drug groups. With a scholarship from the World Health Organization he came to the Cleveland Clinic in the USA in 1955, originally for three months, where he worked in the laboratories of Irvine H. Page and Arthur Corcoran , two specialists in the field of hypertension. The decisive basis for his habilitation thesis , however, was working with Willem Kolff . In 1955 he developed a dialysis machine (double-coil kidney twin-coil) as his colleague , which was later used worldwide.

From 1960 to 1986 he was primary in internal medicine and nephrology at the Elisabethinen Hospital in Linz , where he set up the largest dialysis ward in Austria. In 1976 he founded the Danube Symposia, which served the scientific and medical exchange between East and West. He was a high-ranking member and later an honorary member or honorary president of various national and international nephrological societies.

Watschinger was married to Hildegard and has a son and a daughter. His brother is the missionary doctor Herbert Watschinger . He is buried in the family grave in Perg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: In memoriam Professor Bruno Watschinger , 1920-2017, in: Web presence of Niere-Hochdruck.at queried on November 14, 2017
  2. ↑ I still want to have a dialysis museum, the Sister in Linz already has new plans, in: Wochenblick's website from October 3, 2017, queried on November 14, 2017
  3. ↑ Bruno Watschinger: The dialysis doyen turns 90 today , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of June 14, 2010, queried on November 14, 2017
  4. ↑ Herbert Watschinger , in: Regiowiki.at website queried on November 14, 2017
  5. ↑ Univ. Prof. Dr. Bruno Watschinger passed away , in: Web presence of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Niere Österreich queried on November 14, 2017
  6. ↑ Part for Univ. Prof. Dr. Bruno Watschinger queried on November 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Watschinger, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nephrologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2017