Hellmut Oelert

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Prof. Hellmut Oelert (2003)

Hellmut Oelert (born May 3, 1936 in Dessau , Free State of Anhalt ) is a German heart surgeon and university professor . He was the founding medical director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1984 to 2004.

Life

Oelert visited the Christianeum in Hamburg-Altona , where he passed his matriculation examination in 1956 . After graduating from high school , he began studying medicine at the University of Hamburg , which he completed there in 1962. In the same year he received his doctorate at the University of Munich to Dr. med. In 1964 he was awarded by the Health Authority Hamburg the approbation as a doctor .

After his time as a medical assistant, he stayed until the end of 1966 as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation at the Physiological Institute of the Free University of Berlin to gain his knowledge of basic science with the physiologist Prof. Dr. Karl-Julius Ullrich to deepen. His main research was on ammonia transport in the kidneys .

In 1967 he became a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Rudolf Zenker to the University of Munich Hospital , where he gained his first experience with open heart surgery using the heart-lung machine .

In March 1968 he moved to the Hannover Medical School (MHH) together with the surgeon Hans Georg Borst . There he played a key role in setting up the Clinic for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at the Medical University of Hanover .

In 1970/1971 he interned for one and a half years at the Hospital for Sick Children in London . At that time one of the few hospitals in the world specializing in pediatric heart medicine. Here he gained his first experience with open heart surgery in infancy . He brought the knowledge he had acquired there with him to Hanover , where he used innovative surgical techniques and developed them independently in the years that followed. In 1972 he became a specialist in surgery, and since 1973 he was a senior physician . ! In 974 he completed his habilitation at MHH and since 1976 he has been the senior physician in charge. In 1978 he was given an extraordinary professorship and since 1979 he has been deputy director of the Clinic for Thoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery at the Hannover Medical School.

After twelve years in Hanover, he was appointed to the University of Mainz in 1984 . When he was appointed full university professor , Oelert came to Mainz at the Johannes Gutenberg University Hospital in Mainz in the spring of 1985 . With his inauguration, as the founding director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, he set a new beginning for cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery at the Johannes Gutenberg University Hospital in Mainz. Under his leadership, in addition to routine heart surgery included valve replacement and coronary heart disease , especially surgery of congenital heart disease , surgery of Mitralrekonstruktion that coronary surgery without the use of HLM (OPCAB) , pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in thromboembolic induced pulmonary hypertension , surgery the aorta and peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAD) to the Mainz repertoire. In 1993 lung transplant surgery was added, followed by heart transplant surgery in 1994 .

Oelert recognized the need for interdisciplinary and international cooperation early on. Oelert is the founder of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Vascular Therapy and Research Center (GTFZ) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Clinic and initiator of cooperation with numerous cardio-surgical centers, among others. a. in Alexandria , St. Petersburg , Novosibirsk as well as in London and Salzburg . During his tenure as director he trained a total of 21 clinic and department heads as well as 12 post- doctoral candidates at the clinic for cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery in Mainz. He retired in 2001, but headed the clinic until 2004. Since then, he has devoted himself to the issues of heart patients on a voluntary basis and advocates their interests, for example on the extended board of the German Heart Foundation (DHS) and as spokesman for the scientific advisory board of the German Foundation for Heart Research (DSHF). He has received several awards for his life's work and his voluntary work. In 2003 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon , in 2011 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and in 2019 the Peter von Aspelt Medal. Since 2019 he has been an honorary member of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG).

Honors

  • 2003: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2011: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • 2019: Peter von Aspelt Medal
  • 2019: Honorary member of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG)

Fonts

  • with Hans Georg Borst, Werber Klinner (ed.): Heart surgery. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1978, ISBN 3-540-08267-0 . New edition 1991; ISBN 978-3-662-07753-5 .
  • with Hans Georg Borst: Heart and vessels close to the heart. In: Georg Heberer, Wolfgang Köle, Harald Tscherne: Chirurgie. Textbook for students of medicine and doctors. Springer, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 978-3-662-00440-1 , pp. 286-314 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Press release of the District Medical Association Rheinhessen from June 26, 2019
  2. ↑ History of the clinic on unimedizin-mainz.de
  3. ↑ Anja Baumgart-Pietsch: Prof. Hellmut Oelert has reached the age of 80. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . May 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Hellmut Oelert receives the Federal Cross of Merit on the website of the University of Mainz, December 5, 2003
  5. ^ Announcement of the awards from May 1, 2011 on the website of the Federal President
  6. ↑ https://www.dgthg.de/de/ on the website of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
personal data
SURNAME Oelert, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau , Free State of Anhalt