Edith Tutsch-Bauer

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Edith Tutsch-Bauer, November 3, 2015

Edith Tutsch-Bauer (born March 22, 1952 in Amberg , Upper Palatinate , Bavaria) is a forensic doctor and university lecturer.

Life

From 1971 to 1978 she studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received her doctorate in 1979. The title of her dissertation was on the swelling behavior of brains in formalin . From 1978 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Munich, and in 1983 she took over the management of the Serology Department . In 1989 she completed her habilitation with the thesis Serological identification possibilities in mass disasters . In 1997 she was appointed university professor at the University of Munich. In 1998 she was appointed to the Chair of Forensic Medicine at the University of Salzburg (since 2004: Interfaculty Department of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Neuropsychiatry) and taught at the Paracelsus Medical Private University until her retirement at the end of 2016 . Her main research focus was the entire field of child abuse.

She was also a member of the Academic Senate, a member of the ethics committee of the University of Salzburg and Vice President of the Austrian Society for Forensic Medicine (ÖGGM). As head of forensic medicine in Salzburg, she was responsible for the city and province of Salzburg and Upper Austria. Under her leadership, the Salzburg Forensic Medicine department was incorporated into the Austrian National DNA Database as the second institute after Innsbruck.

In addition, she was deployed after national and international disasters and war crimes. She was involved in the identification of victims after the fire in the Tauern tunnel in May 1999 and with the identification of war victims after the exhumation of mass graves on behalf of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on the occasion of the UN mission in Kosovo in October 1999. She was also called in after the fire disaster in Kaprun in November 2000 with 155 deaths, as a member of the Austrian DVI team (Disaster Victim Identification) after the tsunami disaster for the autopsy and identification of the victims in Thailand and Sri Lanka in January 2005 and after The Bad Reichenhall ice rink collapsed in January 2006.

Tutsch-Bauer privately supports social projects like farmers helping farmers to rebuild in Kosovo or the tsunami areas in Sri Lanka.

Awards

  • 2016: Gold coat of arms medal for the city of Salzburg for its services to the city of Salzburg
  • In the 2011/12 academic year she was elected teacher of the year by the human medicine students at the Paracelsus Medical Private University
  • 2001: Salzburg Woman of the Year from the newspaper Salzburger Fenster
  • 2000: Silver Medal of Honor from the State of Salzburg for their work during the Kaprun cable car accident

Publications

  • Christoph Brandhuber, Edith Tutsch-Bauer: Herbal Art and Bone Saw : Medicine at the Court of the Salzburg Baroque Prince Muery Salzmann, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-99014-120-5
  • Serological identification options in mass disasters . Habilitation thesis, 1989
  • About the swelling behavior of brains in formalin . University of Munich, Faculty of Medicine, Diss., 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Der Standard : 40,000 victims in 26 professional years from May 25, 2004
  2. Uni-Nachrichten 11: Our patients don't talk to us . dated June 8, 2013
  3. Salzburger Nachrichten : A grande dame says goodbye to the dead on August 13, 2016
  4. ^ City of Salzburg: The city's gold medal for Prof. Edith Tutsch-Bauer dated February 5, 2016
  5. ^ Spiegel Online : Head of Forensic Medicine, November 14, 2000
  6. ^ City of Salzburg: Reception for the Kaprun forces on December 18, 2000