Hinrich Bitter-Suermann
Hinrich Bitter-Suermann (born March 10, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German-Canadian transplant surgeon, university professor and politician.
Life
Bitter-Suermann studied medicine from 1959 to 1965 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , the Georg August University of Göttingen and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel . 1959–1960 he became a member of the Corps Nassovia Würzburg and the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . In 1965 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . After obtaining his license to practice medicine in Kiel in 1967, he completed his surgical specialist training in Sweden, Kiruna and Haparanda, and went to England in 1971 with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) to train in transplant surgery. For three years he worked and researched at Cambridge University under Sir Roy Yorke Calne. In 1974 he returned to Sweden and worked at Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset (Gothenburg) . The University of Gothenburg received his doctorate in medicine in 1975 and appointed him lecturer in transplant surgery the following year.
Supported by the Swedish Cancer Society , he was a visiting researcher at the Cancer Research Unit, McGill University , Montreal , Québec , Canada in 1976/77 . He then went to the Institute of Pathology at Georgetown University , Washington, DC for five years. At the same time, he collaborated and researched in the field of spleen transplantation with Ethan Shevach at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID, Bethesda , Maryland . In 1977 he became an Associate Professor and in 1981 Professor of Pathology, Georgetown University. In 1982 he was appointed professor of surgery at Dalhousie University , Halifax, Nova Scotia , and was appointed director of liver transplantation. He was involved in kidney , liver and pancreas transplants at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Center and the IWK Hospital for Children . He initiated the Liver Transplant Program for the four Atlantic provinces of Nova Scotia , New Brunswick / Nouveau-Brunswick , Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador . In 2006 he retired.
For the constituency of Chester-St. Margaret's he sat 1998/99 in the Canadian House of Representatives from Nova Scotia in the 57th General Assembly. In 1998 he represented the Canadian party "Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia" and from 1998 to 1999 the "Nova Scotia New Democratic Party".
After 40 years in Sweden, England, the USA and Canada, he returned to Germany when the University of Heidelberg appointed him to its medical faculty in Mannheim in 2007 as director of the new interdisciplinary center for shunt surgery. Since 2012 he has been head of the new Shunt Surgery Center, Robert Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart. When he became chief physician at the Blankenhain Clinic in 2019 , MDR television showed a report about him.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 104/846; 59/1177
- ↑ Dissertation: Investigations of the carotid pulse curve in congenital aortic stenoses, with special consideration of the relationships between the individual time values and the intracardially measured pressure values ; Overview of further publications at biomedexperts.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ^ University of Heidelberg, University Medicine Mannheim: New specialist for dialysis surgery at the hospital , December 11, 2007
- ↑ http://classic.ardmediathek.de/tv/MDR-um-4/Man-ist-nie-zu-alt-um-das-zu-tun-was-/MDR-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=18560348&documentId= 63903992
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| SURNAME | Bitter-Suermann, Hinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian surgeon and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |