Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel

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Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel (born November 22, 1895 in San Francisco ; died July 21, 1988 there ) was an American ophthalmologist . He mainly dealt with the surgical therapy of retinal detachment, which he developed further. As a first name he took the family name of his mother, Wilhelma Dohrmann (1867 to 1950).

Life

Dohrmann K. Pischel attended high school, graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1918 , and then from 1919 to 1923 at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he received his doctorate in 1923. From 1924 to 1926 he was at the First University Eye Clinic in Vienna, the then Mecca of ophthalmology. In 1926 he joined the practice of his father Kaspar Pischel , who came from Tyrol , in San Francisco, which he took over after his retirement. Pischel was from 1935 assistant professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University of Medicine in San Francisco and from 1945 to 1955 there associate professor. From 1955 he was director of the ophthalmology department of this institution, and in 1961 he retired. One of his sons also became an ophthalmologist. There are now several doctors in the US with this family name. Relatives of Pischels still live in Tyrol.

Pischel's specialty was the treatment of retinal detachment. In 1939 Pischel made a trip through European clinics, to Vienna, Berlin and Utrecht. The idea of ​​sewing an implant onto the dermis of the eye and treating it with diathermy was a major step forward , so that the retina was reattached to its base and fixed by scarring. Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath developed light coagulation of the retina, which Dohrmann also took over in 1958, the introduction of laser coagulation was a further advance. Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel further improved the surgical technique of light coagulation. He came up with the idea to make a drawing of every retinal detachment. Another advance in treatment was the introduction of binocular stereoscopic examination of the fundus.

Pischel described a special type of retinal degeneration, lattice degeneration, and another publication by him deals with retinal detachments after the use of miotics (pupil-constricting agents in the treatment of glaucoma ). Pischel's grave is in the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park .

Memberships, awards

Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel was a member of numerous ophthalmological societies, e. B. he was 1960 President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as well as the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society, he was Chairman of the American Medical Association and 1971 President of the American Ophthalmological Society. He was a member of the Retina Society of America, the Gonin Club, an honorary member of the New Zealand Ophthalmological Society and the Australian Ophthalmological Society. In 1960, a Pischel Ophthalmology Library with a library and an archive was founded in San Francisco.

literature

  • Sally S. Hughes PhD, Oral History Series. A Link With Our Past. An interview with Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel, MD. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. - The book is in interview form and the interviewer was Sally S. Hughes PhD.
  • Dohrmann K. Pischel: https://archive.org/details/americanlinks00piscrich
  • Dohrmann K. Pischel MD (biography, portrait) PMC 1298800 (free full text)
  • Pischel OK. Subtle American Links with German Ophthalmology. Retinal Detachement Surgery. San Francisco, 1988.
  • Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel: American links with Germanic ophthalmology. Retinal detachment surgery, San Francisco: an interview, conducted by Sally Smith Hughes, 1987. With introductions by Jerome W. Bettman and Ernest W. Denicke, Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, San Francisco; Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, University of California at Berkeley, ca.1988.
  • Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel: [1]
  • Franz Daxecker , Kaspar Pischel and Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel - two American ophthalmologists with Tyrolean roots. In: Klin Mbl. Augenheilk 221, 210–211 (2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on findagrave.com , accessed on September 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Pischel, Dohrmann Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pischel, Dohrmann; Pischel, Dohrmann K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ophthalmologist with Austrian ancestors
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1988
Place of death San Francisco