Heinz Pichlmaier

Heinz Pichlmaier (born November 10, 1930 in Munich ; † April 28, 2019 ) was a German surgeon and university professor .

Life

Heinz Pichlmaier was a son of the doctor and dentist Karl Pichlmaier from Munich. Heinz Pichlmaier graduated from the Theresien-Gymnasium in Munich in 1948 . In 1949 he began a combined study of dentistry and human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1953 he was with the work on the influence of breathing techniques and other constraints on the absorption of aerosols in the healthy and diseased airways Dr. med. dent. and in 1957 with the work A contribution to the clinical picture and treatment of paraffinoma to Dr. med. PhD . Pichlmaier began his time as a medical assistant in internal medicine with Gustav Bodechtel (1899–1983) in 1957 , followed by activities in gynecology with Werner Bickenbach and surgery with Emil Karl Frey . Pichlmaier spent his further training from 1959 to 1966 at the Surgical University Clinic in Munich with Frey and his successor Rudolf Zenker , interrupted by a training stay at St. Marks Hospital in London. He received his license to practice medicine in 1960, and in 1964 he was recognized as a specialist in surgery.

1965 habilitated to Pichlmaier for the field of surgery with a thesis on Significance of lymphocytes for Homo transplantation . From 1966 he headed the Department of General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the University Hospital in Munich and set up an aseptic transplant unit. In 1967 he visited several universities in the USA and Canada with the help of a scholarship from the German Research Foundation to learn about the progress made in surgery there. In 1971 Pichlmaier was appointed an extraordinary professor . In 1972 he had a study visit to Paris with Jean-Louis Lortat-Jacob (1908-1992) to study esophageal surgery there, and he was entrusted with the organization of a kidney transplant department.

In 1974 Pichlmaier received a call to the University Clinic of Cologne , where he took over the chair for general surgery as the successor to Georg Heberer (1920–1999) and was also appointed director of the University Clinic of Cologne University. Between 1979 and 1981 Pichlmaier was also the chairman of the ethics committee there , and in 1981 and 1982 he was dean of the medical faculty.

In 1996 Pichlmaier ended his medical activities and retired.

Act

Pichlmaier's work focused on surgery of the esophagus , trachea and lungs in thoracic surgery , and liver surgery in abdominal surgery . He devoted himself to transplant surgery - especially kidney transplantation  - and vascular surgery .

In 1983, the first station for palliative therapy in the Federal Republic of Germany was established under Pichlmaier's direction within the Department of Surgery . In 1984 this unit was supplemented by a home care service and the “Education Forum for Surgery” to disseminate ideas and experiences. All three facilities were funded by the German Cancer Aid . In 1992 - again with the support of the German Cancer Aid - the " Dr.-Mildred-Scheel -Haus für Palliativmedizin" could be moved into, which today has 15 beds , an outpatient clinic, the home care service and the "Dr. Mildred Scheel Academy for research and Education ”as the successor to the Education Forum. In 1994 Pichlmaier founded the German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP), of which he was president from 1994 to 1998. In 2004 a chair for palliative medicine was established at the University of Cologne and was filled with Raymond Voltz (* 1963).

In 1994 Pichlmaier was appointed as a deputy member and in 1999 as a member of the expert commission for medical treatment errors at the North Rhine Medical Association . In 1995 he was appointed chairman of the "Central Commission for the Protection of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas" ("Central Ethics Commission ") at the German Medical Association. During the three terms of office chaired by Pichlmaier (until 2004), the commission drafted nine statements and declarations on eight topics, including the protection of persons unable to consent in medical research (1997), stem cell research (2002) and research with minors (2004).

Pichlmaier was a member of numerous German and foreign specialist societies . From 1991 to 1995 he was editor of the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie , from 1994 to 2004 specialist editor for surgery of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt . Pichlmaier has written over 470 publications in specialist journals and numerous book chapters. Together with Friedrich-Wilhelm Schildberg , he is the editor of the volume Thoracic Surgery of Kirschner's general and special operating theory . He contributed to the creation of interdisciplinary guidelines for the German Cancer Society and the German Society for Surgery .

Honors

In 2005, Pichlmaier received the Paracelsus Medal of the German medical profession, because he “stood out thanks to his exemplary attitude as a doctor, clinician, scientist and academic teacher, as a pioneer of the national palliative movement , member of a committee of experts and chairman of the national ethics committee for medical care and the health system , who has rendered outstanding services to medical self-administration and to the common good in the Federal Republic of Germany ” .

Web links

• Publications by H. Pichlmaier in PubMed
• Paracelsus Medal for Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Heinz Pichlmaier. (2005)

Single receipts

1. ↑ Obituary notice Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Heinz Pichlmaier , FAZ from May 3, 2019
2. ↑ Paracelsus Medal for Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Heinz Pichlmaier. 2005, accessed February 5, 2015