Eberhard Zeitler

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Eberhard Zeitler (born March 9, 1930 in Mylau , Vogtland ; † November 25, 2011 in Nuremberg ) was a German physician who, as an internationally recognized authority, established radiology as a separate specialist area in medicine and better and gentler methods of detection and cure diseases in angiology and cardiology. He received international recognition for his pioneering work in the field of cardiac catheter examination .

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Zeitler studied after an apprenticeship as a baker (1945-1947) and the Abitur in 1949 in Oelsnitz (Vogtland) from 1950 to 1955 at the Humboldt University of Berlin medicine. From 1955 to 1957 he worked as a medical assistant, completed his training as a specialist in radiology from 1957 to 1961 at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) and switched to the Institute for Clinical Radiation Medicine at Johannes after the Berlin Wall was built Gutenberg University Mainz , where he received a professorship. From 1967 to 1976 Zeitler worked as medical director at the Aggertal Clinic for Vascular Diseases of the Rhine Province State Insurance Institute in Engelskirchen near Cologne, where he established the practical basis for diagnosis and therapy with new imaging systems in constant exchange with internationally renowned doctors. In 1967, following the example of the American Charles Dotter, he carried out the first femoral PTA on European soil. Andreas Roland Grüntzig , who achieved the first coronary PTA in Zurich in 1977 , was one of his students.

In 1976 Zeitler was appointed chief physician of the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the Nuremberg Municipal Hospitals , where he worked until his retirement in 1995. Among other things, he organized the 66th German X-ray Congress in Nuremberg in 1985 .

Zeitler conveyed his research results and practical experience at numerous congresses in many countries. The European Society CIRSE named him a Distinguished Fellow in 1993 and in 2002 awarded him the gold medal as the highest honor. In 1996 he was awarded the Albers Schönberg Medal by the German Radiological Society, of which he became an honorary member in 2006. Since 2013, the German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy has been awarding the Eberhard Zeitler Medal for special merits in this field every year at the opening ceremony of the Interventional Radiological Olbert Symposium (IROS).

Works

As a specialist author, Zeitler wrote several standard works. His scientific work includes over 330 publications. In 1977 he founded the journal Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (CVIR) together with the Boston physician Herbert Abrams . In 2008 he took stock of his work, his international contacts and an overview of the modern methods of radiology under the title Doctors before me, with, beside and after me (August von Goethe Literaturverlag Frankfurt, ISBN 978-1-84698-505- 8 ) appeared.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Zeitler Medal

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personal data
SURNAME Zeitler, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mylau , Vogtland
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2011
Place of death Nuremberg