Helmut Sinzinger

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Helmut Sinzinger (born May 6, 1948 in Vienna ; † February 21, 2020 in Vienna) was an Austrian doctor.

Life

Sinzinger's father Franz, also a doctor, dealt with the problem of atherosclerosis when high cholesterol levels and the associated physiological effects were still unknown medical territory.

Sinzinger graduated from the Schottengymnasium in 1966 and graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Vienna in 1973. He began his scientific work while studying with Wilhelm Firbas (anatomy) and Wilhelm Auerswald , the then head of the Physiological Institute at the University of Vienna.

After stays abroad in the USA - u. a. Mayo Clinic, Yale University, London, Basel and Rotterdam, he specialized in nuclear medicine . He was a specialist in internal medicine, atherosclerosis research and nuclear medicine and received his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna for atherosclerosis research, nuclear medicine and clinical pharmacology. From 1992 to 2006 and from 2010 he was Deputy Head of the University Clinic for Nuclear Medicine , and in between, from 1993 to 1998 and from October 1, 2012 he was acting director of the University Clinic for Nuclear Medicine. Since 1992 Sinzinger has been the medical director of the outpatient clinic for the diagnosis and therapy of lipid metabolic disorders and atherosclerosis (ATHOS) in Vienna and since 1995 medical director of the Institute for Nuclear Medicine in Vienna. He retired on September 30, 2013. Since December 11, 2017 he has been professor for lipid metabolism at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. On March 20, 2019, he was elected President of the Society of Doctors in Vienna at the annual general meeting . He died on February 21, 2020 after a brief serious illness.

Research and Teaching

Sinzinger made fundamental contributions to the clinical understanding of prostaglandins .

He has taught as visiting professor at the Universities of Krakow, Poland (1993), Perugia, Italy (1994), Barcelona, ​​Spain (1994) and Ekpoma, Nigeria (1997). In 1997, together with Harald Kritz, he held the first internet lecture worldwide on the subject of "Insights into Atherosclerosis - Internet Based Interaction".

Memberships

He was co-founder, president and board member of numerous scientific societies and on the advisory board of more than 30 scientific journals.

  • International Society on Radiolabeled Blood Elements (President 1992–1995)
  • Austrian-Greek Atherosclerosis Prevention Initiative (President since 1992)
  • Society of Doctors, member of the Board of Directors since 1993, member of the Presidium since 2012
  • Danubian League against Thrombosis and Haemorrhagic Disorders (Scientific National Committee since 1984; President 1987–1989; Secretary General 2000–2012; Honorary President since 2013)
  • Founding member and President (2013 - 2019) of the Austrian Apheresis Association (Triple A - Austrian Apheresis Association), then honorary member

Awards / honors (selection)

Sinzinger has received numerous scientific prizes, including:

  • Theodor Billroth Prize of the Vienna Medical Association (Vienna 1975, 1977, 1985, 1986 and 1988)
  • Promotion Prize of the Austrian Cardiological Society (Vienna 1985)
  • Scientific Award of the City of Vienna (1985)
  • Scientific Prize of the International Union of Angiology (Paris 1992)
  • CIS-Jean Debiesse Nuclear Medicine Prize (Lisbon 1992, Barcelona 1999)
  • Mc Afee Medal (2014)
  • Billroth Medal (2016)
  • Golden medal of the 5th International Medical Olympiad (2019)

Sinzinger was u. a. Honorary member of:

  • Hungarian (1984) and Polish (1993) Atherosclerosis Societies
  • Austrian Society for Prostaglandin Research (apr) (1988)
  • Honorary President of the DLTH (Danubian League against Thrombosis and Haemorrhagic Disorders) (2013)
  • Slovak Society of Hemostasis and Thrombosis (2016)

He was an external member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Cracow (1993).

Publications

Sinzinger developed training brochures, slide series, videos, CD-ROMs, DVDs and led information campaigns as well as national and international consensus conferences. He published more than 800 publications (PubMed).

He was editor of the books (selection):

  • With JR Vane, B.Samuelsson, R. Paoletti, PW Ramwell, PY-K. Won: Recent Advances in Prostaglandin, Thromboxane, and Leukotriene Research (1998) Plenum Publ., New York 1998
  • With H. Kritz, G. Wawrik: PGE1 in Intensive Care , Facultas Universitätsverlag, Vienna 1998
  • With H. Bergmann, H. Köhn, Birkhäuser: Radioactive Isotopes in Clinical Medicine and Research , Basel 1999
  • With H. Kritz: EU fat point concept. Fett weg Bauch weg , Pro Patient Edition, Vienna 2007.
  • With K. Derfler: Lipid therapy in practice - what can you do, do you have to, should you? Bremen Uni-Med Verlag, 2009, 2nd edition, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medical director - H. Sinzinger - Institute Athos. Retrieved May 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ Obituary: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Sinzinger, 1948 - 2020, Society of Doctors. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ CV - Minimed. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 1, 2017 ; accessed on May 26, 2017 . 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.gesund.at
  4. ↑ Franz Hlavac: 50th graduation anniversary celebrated in Friuli http://www.hopfmueller-hlavac.at/category/friaul-tagebuch/
  5. ↑ Chairs - Center for Gastrointestinal Diseases and Metabolism. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ About us, Society of Doctors. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Previous events, Society of Doctors. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Obituary: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Sinzinger, 1948 - 2020, Society of Doctors. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  9. ↑ ISORBE Celebrates Silver Jubilee, Mc Afee Medal: http://www.isorbe.com/index.php?pid=kat4
  10. ↑ Winner of the Billroth Medal: https://www.billrothhaus.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=167
  11. ^ Members of the PAU - Section V: Medicine. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, accessed June 16, 2017 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Sinzinger, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2020
Place of death Vienna