Helgo Magnussen

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Helgo Magnussen (born June 11, 1944 in Storkow (Mark) ) is a German physician and professor of pulmonary medicine .

Life

Helgo Magnussen studied in Tübingen , initially doing research at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen, then at the University of Bonn , from 1977 as head of the pneumological functional unit there. He dealt intensively with lung function and, in particular, with whole-body plethysmography . In 1979 he completed his habilitation in Bonn. In 1984 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Hamburg .

From 1985 he headed the Center for Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery in Großhansdorf. There he set up a center for sleep medicine in the same year . In 1998 he founded the Pneumological Research Institute, which primarily examines questions about improving the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. In 2004 he was appointed to the C4 endowed professorship for internal medicine / pulmonology at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck campus, and has since led the "Pneumoupdate", an annual, national advanced training event for pulmonology. Today Magnussen heads the “Pneumology, Sleep Medicine and Allergology” department in the group practice “Medizinicum Hamburg” (until 2018: “Klinikum Stephansplatz”). Here, in an interdisciplinary team, he deals with the effects of systemic rheumatological diseases such as scleroderma on the lungs.

Helgo Magnussen dealt with numerous scientific questions in pulmonary medicine at an early age. The focus is on diseases of the respiratory tract such as bronchial asthma , chronic bronchitis ( COPD ) and diseases of the pulmonary framework ( pulmonary fibrosis ). He has published more than 400 scientific papers.

Helgo Magnussen is a great-grandson of Christian Carl Magnussen .

Fonts

  • with B. Disse, R. Rodriguez-Roisin, A. Kirsten, H. Watz, K. Tetzlaff, L. Towse, H. Finnigan, R. Dahl, M. Decramer, P. Chanez, EF Wouters and PM Calverley; the WISDOM Investigators: Withdrawal of Inhaled Glucocorticoids and Exacerbations of COPD. In: N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 8.
  • with H. Watz, B. Waschki and T. Meyer: Physical activity in patients with COPD. In: Eur. Respir. J. 33, Feb 2009, pp. 262-272.
  • with DE O'Donnell, T. Flights, F. Gerken, A. Hamilton, K. Webb, B. Aguilaniu, B. Make: Effects of tiotropium on lung hyperinflation, dyspnoea and exercise tolerance in COPD. In: Eur. Respir. J. 23, Jun 2004, pp. 832-840.
  • with Henrik Watz, Benjamin Waschki, Corinna Boehme, Martin Claussen and Thorsten Meyer: Extrapulmonary Effects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Physical Activity: A Cross-sectional Study. In: Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 177, Apr 2008, pp. 743-751.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who's who in Medicine. 5th edition (1981). P. 579.
  2. ↑ internisten-update.com ( Memento from August 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ pulmoresearch.de ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pulmoresearch.de
  4. ↑ Klinikum-stephansplatz.de
  5. ↑ Klinikum-stephansplatz.de
personal data
SURNAME Magnussen, Helgo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Storkow (Mark)