Helmut Gadner

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Helmut Gadner (* 16th August 1940 in Bolzano ) is a pediatrician , hematologist and oncologist and long-time medical director of the St. Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna , who has rendered outstanding services to the cure of children with cancer and the development of childhood cancer research in Austria.

Life

Helmut Gadner grew up in Bozen ( South Tyrol ), where he attended the Franziskanergymnasium and graduated from high school in 1959 . From 1959 to 1966 he studied medicine at the University of Vienna and the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After completing his studies, he trained as an additive specialist in hematology at the University of Modena and trained as a specialist in pediatrics at the university hospitals in Berlin, Zurich and Modena. He completed his habilitation with Hansjörg Riehm in the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology at the University Children's Clinic at the Free University of Berlin .

Together with Riehm, Gadner developed a new approach for the therapy of childhood cancer, which has been operating under the label "BFM" since 1976 due to the pioneering work of the research groups in Berlin and subsequently also in Frankfurt and Münster. With the newly developed therapeutic approach, it has been possible to significantly increase the chance of a cure in childhood cancers: while the survival rate was below 20 percent until the end of the 1960s, it has risen to 80 percent in the following years, depending on the disease.

In 1980 Helmut Gadner took over the management of the St. Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna as medical director. When he took over the management, he was also entrusted with the planning and organization of the renovation and new construction of the hospital. During this time he pushed ahead with the restructuring of the hospital and, above all, the further expansion of the hematological-oncology department into an internationally recognized center for childhood cancer and stem cell transplantation. Since 1988, Helmut Gadner has been the director of the St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute, which he set up and which has established itself as a national and international center of excellence for research into childhood cancer and is therefore largely responsible for ensuring that Austria is now a front runner in Europe in the successful Treatment of childhood cancer applies.

Helmut Gadner has published a large number of scientific publications and is a member of numerous national and international organizations, including a. the Austrian Academy of Sciences , the Austrian Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology GPOH and the International Society for Pediatric Oncology SIOP or the International Leukemia Study Group "BFM-family". He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow .

Gadner is the recipient of numerous prizes, awards and honors, u. a. Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria , 2008, "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the European Society for Pediatric Oncology, 2009, Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class , 1998, Hansjörg Riehm Prize for Excellence in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology , 2000, Prize of the City of Vienna for Medical Sciences , 2004.

He is married to the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Waldtraut Gadner-Spögler. The couple have two children and seven grandchildren.

Publications (selection)

  • H. Gadner et al .: Therapy prolongation improves outcome in multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis. In: Blood. Volume 121, No. 25, 2013, pp. 5006-5014. doi: 10.1182 / blood-2012-09-455774 .
  • H. Gadner: Treatment of adult-onset Langerhans cell histiocytosis — is it different from the pediatric approach? In: Annals of Oncology. Volume 21, No. 6, 2010, pp. 1141-1142. doi: 10.1093 / annonc / mdp540 .
  • H. Gadner et al .: Improved outcome in multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis is associated with therapy intensification. In: Blood. Volume 111, No. 5, 2008, pp. 2556-2562. doi: 10.1182 / blood-2007-08-106211 .
  • H. Gadner among others: Pediatric hematology and oncology. Springer-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-540-03702-0 .
  • H. Gadner: Retinoblastoma, an interdisciplinary challenge. In: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. Volume 118, No. 1-2, 2006, pp. 7-10. doi: 10.1007 / s00508-005-0506-9 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ T. Klingebiel, M. Schrappe: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Riehm, a life dedicated to science. In: Klin Padiatr. 225 (S 01), 2013, pp. S9-S14. doi: 10.1055 / s-0033-1337958
  2. ↑ Increase in survival rates according to the website of the "Research heals cancer" initiative ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 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.forschenheiltkrebs.eu
  3. ↑ Website of the St. Anna Children's Hospital on its history / management ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 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.stanna.at
  4. ↑ History of the St. Anna Children's Hospital, Section 5 "Hemato-Oncology" ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 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.stanna.at
  5. ^ Karl Heinz Tragl: Chronicle of the Vienna hospitals. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2007, pp. 654f.
  6. ↑ History and Future of St. Anna Children's Cancer Research, website
  7. ↑ Once to the university clinic and back to St. Anna Children's Hospital: development, cooperation and organizational unification. ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2015 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. In: A. Pollak (Ed.): Festschrift “100 Years of the Vienna University Clinic for Children and Adolescent Medicine”. 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02161-7 , p. 136.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stanna.at
  8. ↑ Research report 2013–2014 of St. Anna Children's Cancer Research, p. 7.
  9. ↑ G. Gemma et al: Childhood cancer survival in Europe 1999-2007: results of EUROCARE-5 — a population-based study. In: The Lancet Oncology. Volume 15, No. 1, January 2014, pp. 35-47.
  10. ^ Profile of Helmut Gadner on ResearchGate
  11. ^ Membership page of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  12. ↑ a b The Federal Chancellor's answer to the inquiry
  13. ↑ Entry on the presentation of the award on the website of Federal President Dr. Heinz Fischer ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundespraesident.at
  14. ↑ SIOPE's Community Newsletter May 2010 Issue 7, pp. 10-11.
  15. ↑ T. Klingebiel, M. Schrappe: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Riehm, a life dedicated to science. In: Klin Padiatr. 225 (S 01), 2013, pp. S9-S14. doi: 10.1055 / s-0033-1337958
personal data
SURNAME Gadner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pediatrician, hematologist and oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano