Gilbert Thiel

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Gilbert Thiel (born October 27, 1934 in Zurich ; † January 9, 2012 in Buchen im Prättigau ) was a Swiss internist and nephrologist who excelled clinically and scientifically in the field of kidney transplantation .

Prof. Gilbert Thiel (1988)

Life and achievement

Gilbert Thomas Thiel grew up in Zurich. From 1953 to 1959 he studied human medicine in Zurich, Paris and Marburg an der Lahn . In 1959 he passed the medical state examination in Zurich. From 1960 to 1961 Thiel was assistant to E. Uehlinger at the Institute for Pathology at the University Hospital Zurich. In 1961 he received his doctorate (polycythemia in kidney tumors). Then, from 1961 to 1965, Thiel was an assistant at the medical department of the Waid City Hospital in Zurich with Otto Spühler, the discoverer of analgesic nephropathy . The specialist examination for internal medicine in Zurich was followed by a two-year activity as a research fellow in the Division of Nephrology and Transplantation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with John P. Merrill at the Harvard Medical School in Boston ( USA ). Thiel worked there experimentally (tubular micropunction) with a model of acute renal insufficiency in rats. In parallel, he had the opportunity to work in clinical practice at Merrill. A half-year assistant at the Clinic of Nephrology at Washington University in Seattle with Baldwin H. Scribner rounded off the work in the USA.

After returning to Switzerland, Thiel became the medical director of the organ transplantation department at the University Hospital Basel from 1969 to 1999. In 1972 he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel (pathophysiology of the crush kidney). In 1977 Thiel was assigned an associate professor for nephrology at the University of Basel. From 1985 to 1999 he was head of the department for nephrology and organ transplantation at the University Hospital Basel. In 1998 Thiel received the full professorship for nephrology and organ transplantation at the University of Basel. In 1999 he retired . Since then, he has kept the Swiss Living Organ Donor Register (SOL-DHR), which he founded in 1993, until 2010. This records all living kidney donors in the 6 Swiss transplant centers prospectively and continuously, and since 2008 also living liver donations. It is not just about the registration, but about biennial medical examinations and interventions if health or financial problems (health insurance, disability insurance) emerge.

Gilbert Thiel penned 372 scientific publications, 132 of them as first and 121 as senior authors. He wrote 71 book chapters.

In 1961 Gilbert Thiel married the doctor Lieselotte Lehmann from Zurich. The marriage had two sons in the 1960s.

Gilbert Thiel died on January 9, 2012 at the age of 77.

Special functions and honors

  • 1977 to 1979 President of the Swiss Society for Nephrology
  • 1977 to 1980 President of the Society for Nephrology (West Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
  • Honorary member of the Society for Nephrology of the GDR . Thiel campaigned particularly for the access of nephrologists from the GDR to events of the Swiss Society for Nephrology.
  • 1990 Franz Volhard Prize of the Society for Nephrology (Frankfurt am Main)
  • 1993 to 2010 foundation and management of the Swiss organ living donor register SOL-DHR
  • 1994 to 1999 President of the Kidney Transplantation Commission of the Swiss Society of Nephrology
  • 1995 to 1997 President of the European Society of Transplantation (ESOT)
  • 1998 to 2007 President of the National Research Program "Implants and Transplants" (NRP 46) of the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • 1999 to 2001 Co-President of the Ethical Commission Beider Basel (EKBB)
  • 2000 Franz Volhard Medal of the German Society for Nephrology (Hofburg Vienna)
  • 2003 honorary member of the Swiss Transplant Society
  • 2006 to 2007 member of the sub-committee "Living Donation of Solid Organs" of the Swiss Academy of Medical Science (SAMS)
  • 2011 "Award of Excellency" , presented by the Swiss Society for Nephrology and the Swiss Society of Transplantation

literature

  • Felix Brunner: Laudation to Gilbert Thiel on the occasion of his retirement: Professor G. Thiel, Full Professor of Nephrology at the Department of Internal Medicine, Basel, resigns . "Kidney and high pressure diseases" 29 (2000), pp. 85-87 (Dustri-Verlag)
  • Walter H. Hörl: Laudation Gilbert Thomas Thiel: Recipient of the Volhard Medal 2000 . Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, 23: 150-151 (2000)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Gilbert Thiel in: unispital-basel (PDF; 20 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss internist and nephrologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2012
Place of death Book in the Prättigau