Friedhelm Beyersdorf

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Friedhelm Beyersdorf (2013)

Karl-Friedhelm Beyersdorf (nickname Friedhelm) (born August 8, 1954 in Bochum ) is a German surgeon, scientist and university professor.

Life

Friedhelm Beyersdorf grew up in the Ruhr area. He went to elementary school in Recklinghausen and graduated from high school in 1973 in Wiesbaden. Beyersdorf studied medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and at Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and approved in October 1981 in Frankfurt. His dissertation on the subject of ischemia tolerance of the human heart was awarded the Prize of the Society of Friends of Paul Ehrlich eV in 1982 for the best dissertation from the Medical Faculty in Frankfurt. He completed his advanced training in pathology, general surgery and finally in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery as well as vascular surgery at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he was finally qualified as a specialist in surgery, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery and vascular surgery. Under his surgical teacher, Peter Satter, he qualified as a professor in June 1990 in the field of surgery with the topic The principle of controlled reperfusion in cardiovascular surgery . His work was driven by a research stay at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles , where, together with Gerald Buckberg, he worked on crucial work on cardioplegia of the heart, which is now the standard cardioplegia at most cardiac surgery centers.

Friedhelm Beyersdorf became full professor for cardiovascular surgery in 1994 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Clinic . From 1997 to 2001 he was managing director of the surgical clinic at the University Medical Center Freiburg. In November 2000 he was awarded an honorary professorial degree by the University of Marilia (Brazil) and in March 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) by the National University of Laos (Ventiane) . In 2006 Beyersdorf turned down an offer for the W3 professorship for cardiac surgery at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . As part of the merger of the Bad Krozingen Heart Center with the cardiovascular departments of the Freiburg University Hospital, he was appointed Medical Director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery of the “University Heart Center Freiburg • Bad Krozingen” (UHZ).

Friedhelm Beyersdorf has been a council member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) since 2002 and was elected Editor-in-Chief of the two journals of the society (European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, EJCTS and Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, ICVTS) in 2010 . Between 2009 and 2011, Beyersdorf was President of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG). In 2011 he received the Fritz Acker Prize from the German Society for Cardiology. In December 2013 Beyersdorf was appointed "Membre correspondant étranger de l ' Académie nationale de Médecine ".

Friedhelm Beyersdorf is married to Susanne Beyersdorf and has three children.

Focus of work

Beyersdorf's first focus was the implementation of blood cardioplegia to improve the ischemic tolerance of the heart during cardiac surgery. He then gave decisive impetus to the surgical treatment of heart failure. Among other things, it attracted attention through the first implantation of a permanent cardiac support system (type Jarvik 2000) in Germany as well as the first implantation of a total artificial heart and the first heart-lung transplant in Baden-Württemberg. In addition to the surgical activities in Laos, Beyersdorf is involved in the care of people from the Third World through the establishment of the association “Kinderherzen retten eV”.

Memberships

Honors

  • Prize of the Society of Friends of Paul Ehrlich e. V. (1982)
  • Honorary Professor at the University of Marilia (2000)
  • Honorary doctorate from Laos National University (2008)
  • Fritz Acker Prize (2011)

Web links

Published scientific journals

  • European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EJCTS)
  • Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Determination of the maximum ischemia tolerance of the human heart by ultrastructural and biochemical recording of the pre-ischemic hypertrophy and degree of degeneration of the myocardium
personal data
SURNAME Beyersdorf, Friedhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyersdorf, Karl-Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heart surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum