Dieter Jocham

Dieter Jocham (* 1949 in Augsburg ) is a German urologist . He lives and works in Lübeck and has been head of the Urology Clinic at the Medical Faculty of the University of Lübeck since 1990 .

At the end of the 1970s, Jocham played a key role in the experimental development of ESWL (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy), a method for the non-invasive treatment of kidney stones that was established in the 1980s .

Life

After graduating from the Christopherus-Gymnasium Altensteig , Jocham began studying medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich in 1968 . In 1974 he passed the state examination with the grade "very good" and became a medical assistant at the Rotkreuz Hospital in Munich. 1975 followed with the license to practice the doctorate with the grade "magna cum laude".

Jocham's professional career begins as a research assistant at the Munich hospitals in Munich-Schwabing and the Rotkreuz Hospital . As part of his specialist training (1977–1981), Jocham devotes himself to the development of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) at the Urological Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (headed by Egbert Schmiedt ) the management of the clinic's own cytological laboratory. 1984 followed the habilitation, which in 1985 went hand in hand with the granting of the license to teach and the management of a clinic's own department for ESWL, endourology and computer-aided data processing.

In 1987 he was appointed professor at the LMU Munich , in 1988 he was appointed senior physician and in 1990 he was appointed to the University of Lübeck. There he took over the management of the Clinic for Urology, first becoming vice dean and in 2000 dean of the medical faculty. From 2003 to 2007 he was on the board of directors for research and teaching at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein . He looks back on numerous memberships in national and international professional societies, including a. to the presidency of the German Society for Urology .

research

With the experimental development of the ESWL, its further development and its clinical application, Jocham is one of the pioneers in the field of non-invasive treatment methods for kidney stones. At that time Christian Chaussy , Ferdinand Eisenberger and the physicist Bernd Forssmann (Dornier) were also significantly involved in the development . The EWSL came to a standard method through the research work of German urologists in the 1980s, in which the kidney stone is broken by high-intensity shock waves in order to avoid invasive removal.

Another area of ​​Jocham's research is photodynamic laser therapy, a laser-assisted treatment that uses photosensitive substances to treat bladder cancer . From 1987 to 1995 he coordinated the joint study "Photodynamic Laser Therapy" with the participation of the universities of LMU Munich, TU rechts der Isar, Düsseldorf, Heidelberg, Lübeck and Bremen. Until 1995, the group investigated the clinical validation of the laser method. Jocham's more recent research is devoted to the development of an artificial urinary bladder. His research is documented in almost 200 scientific publications.

Publications (selection)

• A. Stenzl, D. Jocham et al: Photodynamic diagnostics in the urinary tract. Consensus paper of the Working Group for Oncology of the German Society for Urology. In: Urologist. Volume A 47, 2008, pp. 982-987.
• D. Jocham, F. Witjes et al .: Improved detection and treatment of bladder cancer using hexaminolevulinate imaging: a prospective, phase III multicenter study. In: J Urol . Volume 174, 2005, pp. 862-866.
• D. Jocham, A. Richter et al .: Adjuvant autologous renal tumor cell vaccine and risk of tumor progression in patients with renal-cell carcinoma after radical nephrectomy: phase III, randomized controlled trial. In: The Lancet . Volume 363, 2004, pp. 594-599.
• C. Chaussy, E. Schmiedt et al: First clinical experience with extracorporeally induced destruction of kidney stones by shock waves. In: J Urol. Volume 167, 2002, pp. 844-847.
• P. Fornara, C. Doehn et al: Why is urological laparoscopy minimally invasive? In: Eur Urol . Volume 37, 2000, pp. 241-250.
• K. Svanberg, I. Wang et al .: Clinical multi-color fluorescence imaging of malignant tumors-initial experience. In: Acta Radiol. Volume 39, 1998, pp. 2-9.
• D. Jocham: Superficial bladder cancer: primary treatment with TUR with or without laser-coagulation. In: Recent Results Cancer Res. Volume 126, 1993, pp. 135-142.
• D. Jocham, R. Baumgartner et al: Clinical experience with the integral photodynamic therapy of bladder carcinoma. In: J Photochem Photobiol B. Volume 6, 1990, pp. 183-187.
• M. Beer, D. Jocham et al .: Adjuvant laser treatment of bladder cancer: 8 years' experience with the Nd-YAG laser 1064 nm. In: Br J Urol . Volume 63, 1989, pp. 476-478.
• D. Jocham, C. Chaussy et al: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. In: Urol Int. Volume 41, 1986, pp. 357-368.
• D. Jocham, K. Miller: Practice of Urology. 3rd edition, Thieme Verlag, 2007. ISBN 9783131119032