Dietmar Wolter
Dietmar Wolter (born September 27, 1941 in Klosterbrück , Upper Silesia ) is a German surgeon , inventor and entrepreneur .
Life
Wolter studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen . For medical training he was with Martin Allgöwer in Basel and with Caius Burri in Ulm . In 1971 he completed the United States Medical Licensing Examination . He completed his habilitation in 1976 and was appointed adjunct professor at Ulm University .
At the age of 36 he was elected chief physician of the trauma surgery department of AK St. Georg in Hamburg . He founded the Paul Sudeck Society (1980) and the German Society for Spinal Surgery (1987). By repeatedly inviting “the magician” Gawriil Abramowitsch Ilisarov to Hamburg and sending all senior physicians to Siberia, the revolutionary (30-year-old) Ilisarov concept became known in Germany. Wolter founded the German Ilisarow Society in 1990 and made the BUKH the reference center for treatments with the Ilisarow system.
In 1986 he headed the 138th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons . In 1990 he was appointed medical director of the professional association accident hospital in Hamburg . As chief physician , he headed the department for trauma, plastic and reconstructive surgery. In 1987 he founded Litos , a medical technology company . In 1998 he initiated the at Springer published journal for bone and joint surgery trauma and occupational disease .
In 2002 he handed over the post to his former representative Christian Jürgens . He himself concentrated on the further development of connection systems in nature, medicine and technology. In 2005 he founded awiso with other surgeons, scientists and engineers. He is currently head of the Osteosynthesis Institute in Ahrensburg .
Inventions
Wolter holds numerous patents, including on non-medical inventions. This includes a system for multidirectional and angle-stable locking of bone screws in the associated plate (tifix®). The terms unidirectional-angle-stable and multidirectional-angle-stable go back to him. His invention enables the surgeon to freely choose the angle of the screw position up to a certain degree and still lock the screw head in the plate at a stable angle without further aids . Today, the tifix technology is used worldwide through licensing to larger companies.
He also invented the “intelligent implant”. The internal fixation and regulation system consists of a bone plate and screws. A measuring unit transmits data about the flow of forces in the implant and allows conclusions to be drawn about the healing state and the resilience of the bone.
A notable painter himself , Wolter won Johannes Grützke for the large mural in the auditorium of the BUKH in the early 1990s . It “tells” the history of trauma surgery and pays homage to the surgeons, politicians and professional association decision-makers who have promoted and fostered the development of the field.
literature
- Rüdiger Döhler , Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus : Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-67-2 , pp. 352–353.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolter, Dietmar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolter, Dietmar Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German surgeon, trauma surgeon and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klosterbrück , Upper Silesia |