Harald Schicha

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Harald Schicha (born July 26, 1943 in Freiberg , Saxony ) is a German nuclear medicine specialist .

Live and act

Schicha passed his Abitur at the mathematical and natural science high school in Cologne-Mülheim , which later became the Rhein-Gymnasium . From 1963 to 1968 he studied medicine at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Cologne , where he also received his doctorate in 1969 . After his medical assistantship for surgery at the Elisabeth Hospital in Jülich and at the KFA in 1969/70, he moved to the nuclear medicine clinic of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he completed his habilitation in 1975 and completed his training as a specialist in the new field of nuclear medicine in 1978 . After an extraordinary professorship as senior physician in nuclear medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1980, he accepted a position at the University of Cologne in 1986. Under his leadership, the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Nuclear Medicine at the Cologne University Hospital became one of the largest and most successful research and therapy centers in Europe. He headed the Nuclear Medicine Clinic for 26 years until 2012. Alexander Drzezga, TU Munich, succeeded him in October.

From 1985 to 1989 he was a member of the board of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine . He is an internationally recognized specialist in radiation protection. In 1990 he was appointed to the radiation protection commission at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and in 1994 to the radiation risk committee. He worked on dealing with the consequences of the Chernobyl reactor accident . From 1999 to 2006 he was a member and most recently chairman of the working committee for radiation protection in medicine. In 2001 the German Radiation Protection Ordinance was developed under his leadership . He is also a member of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (election year 2001). Since 1985 he has been a member of the Thyroid Section of the German Society for Endocrinology . The German medical profession elected him because of his research on thyroid diseases in 1994 as an extraordinary member of the drug commission .

Honors

On July 25, 2011, North Rhine-Westphalia's Minister of Science, Svenja Schulze, presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class .

Also in 2011 he was made an honorary member by the German Society for Nuclear Medicine , received her Honorary Diploma from the Croatian Society for Nuclear Medicine and received from the Hanns Langendorff Foundation, the German Society for Medical Radiation Protection (DGMS) and the German Society for Medical Physics for his Life's work, the Hanns Langendorff Medal 2011.

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vita at AKDÄ ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 16, 2019
  2. ↑ Press release Uni-Klinik dated December 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Harald Schicha (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cross of Merit for physician Harald Schicha. RP Online, July 26, 2011, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ Hanns-Langendorff-Medal for the life's work langendorff-stiftung.de, accessed on February 8, 2016
  6. ↑ Kölner Universitätszeitung 4/2011, p. 16 (Personalia)
personal data
SURNAME Schicha, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and nuclear medicine specialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg