Jürgen Freers
Jürgen Freers (born April 5, 1944 ) is a German doctor who worked in very different medical fields.
Life
After graduating from the Schillerschule in Hanover, studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, working as a medical assistant in 1971/72 and training as a specialist in internal medicine at the Am Urban hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg, he carried out an experimental doctoral thesis on what was then a novel emergency pacemaker probe with Wolfgang Dissmann ( Free University Berlin and Am Urban Hospital).
Short study trips to Brazil aroused interest in tropical diseases and humanitarian work. 1982 Training at the Tropical Institute in Hamburg and emigration to the civil war-ridden Uganda , where he (1982-1984) tried to provide health care in the northern West Nile Province (Maracha Hospital, Kuluva Hospital and Aifero Dispensary ) as a volunteer within the framework of the Committee of German Emergency Doctors ( Cape Anamur ) in Zaire near the border ). Without the possibility of referral to specialist departments, all medical challenges had to be accepted in these rural hospitals.
Meeting with internal medicine colleagues from Makerere University in Kampala and - due to the massive shortage of staff at the Department of Internal Medicine due to the civil war - invitation as an external examiner, followed by a job offer from Makerere University . Acceptance of this offer after 1½ years of work in my own general practice in Hanover (1984–1986). Research, teaching and patient care at the then ailing Makerere University (now one of the leading universities in Africa) in the positions of lecturer, senior lecturer and professor. From 1999 head of department for internal medicine.
As a founding member of the first AIDS clinic in Kampala (ISS Clini 1986), he has been asked for numerous assignments as a consultant by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1990 . For the "Global Program on AIDS", later UNAIDS , short-term missions in Ethiopia, Gambia, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Cyprus, Lesotho, Zambia, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Two years full-time activity for the WHO on the first publicly funded HIV therapy project in Africa in Botswana (2002–2003).
2004 return to the Makerere University and establishment of the new cardiology department as its head.
He is married and has three daughters.
Research priorities
His research focuses on endo myocardial fibrosis (EMF) (a chronic heart disease), HIV / AIDS and now - as a necessity - also heart diseases caused by air pollution.
Jürgen Freers was the medical officer of the German Embassy in Kampala from 1990 to 2012. He was President of the Association of Physicians of Uganda and the Uganda Heart Association.
Awards
- 1999: Awarded the "Order of Meritorious Service" from the Ugandan Ministry of Health / Mulago Hospital
- 2008: "Physician of the Year" in Uganda
- 2010: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freers, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1944 |