Gerhard Buess

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Gerhard Fritz Buess FRCS (born April 10, 1948 in Merklingen , † October 30, 2010 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German surgeon and university professor.

Career

Buess was the son of a Daimler-Benz technician and a teacher. He first attended the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Weil der Stadt and then switched to the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium (Leonberg) . With the medical school he started at the University of Tübingen , but then moved to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he in 1972 doctorate was. From May 1973 Buess then worked as an assistant doctor in Kipfenberg and Hausham . From July 1974 to February 1975 he spent time abroad in North, Central and South America. He received his license to practice medicine in Munich at the beginning of 1975. From March 1975 to October 1975 he worked at the Ebersberg District Hospital . In November 1975 he moved to the University Clinic in Cologne , where he became a specialist in surgery in August 1984. Buess also received his habilitation in Cologne . In January 1986 he went to the Mainz University Clinic , where he became senior physician and professor of surgery. In July 1989 he became professor of surgery in Tübingen. From June 1994 he also headed the research section for minimally invasive surgery there .

Guest professorships have taken Buess to a wide variety of universities, including the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the University of Oxford , the George Washington University and the Mayo Clinic .

Buess was married and had two daughters from his first marriage and two sons from his second marriage. He died of cancer .

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Buess developed new methods of endoscopic surgery, including transanal endoscopic microsurgery in 1984 . It has authored or co-authored six textbooks, 71 articles in specialist books and over 240 peer-reviewed articles .

Honors

Buess was the first non-American recipient of the Satava Award for Outstanding Innovative Medical Work, which he received in 1998. In 1998 he was President of the German Society for Endoscopy and Imaging. In 2006 Buess was President of the World Congress for Endoscopic Surgery in Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard F. Buess (April 10, 1948 - October 30, 2010).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, accessed January 2, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.smit.de  
  2. Dr. Gerhard Beuss Biography. ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. International Federation of Endoscopic Surgeons (IFSES), accessed January 1, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifses.org
  3. a b New board member Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard Buess, Munich and Tübingen. In: DGBMT news. Volume 18, Issue 1, April 2000, p. 2.
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 19 kB) Society for Medical Innovation and Technology, accessed on January 1, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.smit.de  
  5. G. Bueß, F. Hutterer, J. Theiss, M. Böbel, W. Isselhard, H. Pichlmaier: The system for transanal endoscopic rectum surgery. In: surgeon. Vol. 55, 1984, pp. 677-680
  6. Dr. Gerhard Beuss Biography. ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifses.org
  7. THE SATAVA AWARD. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nextmed.com
  8. In memory of the surgeon and endoscopist Gerhard Friedrich Buess.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 38 kB) smit.de, accessed on January 2, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.smit.de  
  9. Udo Voges, Ph.D. - IAI Institute for Applied Computer Science, KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe