Dieter Scheffner

Dieter Scheffner (born March 23, 1930 ; † June 24, 2009 ) was a German neuropediatrician , epileptologist and university professor .

Life

After studying medicine in Heidelberg and Innsbruck, he completed his specialist training at the University Children's Hospital in Kiel ( Hermann Doose ).

After his habilitation, Scheffner headed the neuropediatrics department at the University Children's Clinic Homburg / Saar from 1962 to 1969, after which he was director of the neuropediatric department of the Heidelberg University Children's Hospital from 1969 to 1987 and from 1987 to 1998 head of the Department of Pediatrics IV with a focus on neuropediatrics at the Free University of Berlin, Rudolf Virchow Clinic , and the Berlin Max-Bürger-Center for the treatment of disabled children.

From 1998 Scheffner was the Charité's representative for the reform course in medicine.

He was u. a. Long-standing member of the Königstein working group for epilepsy as well as co-founder and from 1993 to 2007 on the board of the Inge and Johann Heinrich Berger-Langefeldt Foundation ("to support people who suffer from epilepsy as a result of external influences").

Scheffner was u. a. from 1988 to 1998 together with Erwin-Josef Speckmann (Münster) and Peter Wolf (Bielefeld-Bethel) editor of the “Epilepsie-Blätter”. Circular letter and magazine of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy ”published by Bethel-Verlag, Bielefeld, as the forerunner of today's“ Zeitschrift für Epileptologie ”of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ), from 1989 to 1991 chairman of the German section of the international league against epilepsy and founding member and two-time president of the Society for Neuropediatrics.

In 1999 he was awarded honorary membership of the German section of the ILAE and an honorary member of the Society for Pediatric Neurology.

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In addition to numerous magazine publications in which he u. a. was the first to draw attention to the risk of fatal liver failure, especially in small children undergoing therapy with valproic acid , while Scheffner was co-editor of several books.

Individual evidence

↑ D. Janz: Dieter Scheffner 1930-2009. In: Z Epileptol. 22, 2009, pp. 281-282.
↑ D. Scheffner: Fatal liver failure in children on valproate. In: Lancet. 30, 1986, p. 511.
↑ D. Scheffner, S. König, I. Rauterberg-Ruland et al: Fatal liver failure in 16 children with valproate therapy. In: Epilepsia. 29, 1988, pp. 530-542.
↑ R. Kruse, D. Scheffner, H.-M. Weinmann, editorial office; Working group for pediatric clinical electroencephalography. Derivation and description of the child's EEG. Hamburg, Desitin Werk Carl Klinke GmbH without year (approx. 1970)
↑ H. Doose, R. Kruse, C. Lipinski, D. Scheffner, H.-M. Weinmann (ed.): Contributions to the classification and drug therapy of epileptic seizures. Meeting reports of the working group for epileptology. Desitin Werk Carl Klinke GmbH (printed by Leck, Clausen & Bosse), Hamburg 1979.
↑ D. Scheffner (Ed.): Epilepsie 90. Brain development and epilepsy; Dynamics of clinical epilepsy courses; EEG and MEG in epilepsy - new aspects for diagnosis and therapy. 30th annual meeting of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy, October 11-13, 1990 in Berlin. Einhorn-Presse, Reinbek 1991.
↑ D. Scheffner (Ed.): Epilepsie 91. Neurotransmitters and epilepsies; Molecular genetics of epilepsies; Epilepsies with complex partial seizures; Epilepsy surgery and preoperative diagnostics; Learning and epilepsy; Experimental epilepsy research; Free presentations; Poster demonstrations. 31st annual meeting of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy, October 3rd - 5th 1991 in Magdeburg. Einhorn-Presse, Reinbek 1992.

personal data
SURNAME	Scheffner, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German neuropediatrist, epileptologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 23, 1930
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 2009

[1] D. Janz: Dieter Scheffner 1930-2009. In: Z Epileptol. 22, 2009, pp. 281-282.

[2] D. Scheffner: Fatal liver failure in children on valproate. In: Lancet. 30, 1986, p. 511.

[3] D. Scheffner, S. König, I. Rauterberg-Ruland et al: Fatal liver failure in 16 children with valproate therapy. In: Epilepsia. 29, 1988, pp. 530-542.

[4] R. Kruse, D. Scheffner, H.-M. Weinmann, editorial office; Working group for pediatric clinical electroencephalography. Derivation and description of the child's EEG. Hamburg, Desitin Werk Carl Klinke GmbH without year (approx. 1970)

[5] H. Doose, R. Kruse, C. Lipinski, D. Scheffner, H.-M. Weinmann (ed.): Contributions to the classification and drug therapy of epileptic seizures. Meeting reports of the working group for epileptology. Desitin Werk Carl Klinke GmbH (printed by Leck, Clausen & Bosse), Hamburg 1979.

[6] D. Scheffner (Ed.): Epilepsie 90. Brain development and epilepsy; Dynamics of clinical epilepsy courses; EEG and MEG in epilepsy - new aspects for diagnosis and therapy. 30th annual meeting of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy, October 11-13, 1990 in Berlin. Einhorn-Presse, Reinbek 1991.

[7] D. Scheffner (Ed.): Epilepsie 91. Neurotransmitters and epilepsies; Molecular genetics of epilepsies; Epilepsies with complex partial seizures; Epilepsy surgery and preoperative diagnostics; Learning and epilepsy; Experimental epilepsy research; Free presentations; Poster demonstrations. 31st annual meeting of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy, October 3rd - 5th 1991 in Magdeburg. Einhorn-Presse, Reinbek 1992.