Jürgen Schäfer (medical doctor)

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Jürgen Rolf Schäfer (* 1956 in Karlsruhe ) is a German internist , endocrinologist , cardiologist , intensive care physician and author . He was named a German Dr. House known worldwide.

Professional background

After attending the Markgrafen-Gymnasium in Durlach and completing basic military service, Schäfer studied medicine at the University of Marburg and Frankfurt from 1978 until he received his license to practice medicine in 1984 . From 1986 to 1989 he was doing research at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and Molecular Disease Branch (MDB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland . From 1989 Schäfer was a research assistant at the University of Marburg. In 1996 he received his habilitation in internal medicine . Since 2004 he has been the Academic Director of the Philipps University of Marburg . Jürgen Schäfer was appointed to the first nationwide professorship for preventive cardiology in Marburg in 2005.

Center for Undetected and Rare Diseases

In 2008, Jürgen Schäfer began his medical student model based on the US television series Dr. Explain difficult medical cases to House . The seminar series “Dr. House revisited - or: Would we have cured the patient in Marburg too? ”Also enjoyed great media interest. He has since made several unusual diagnoses using this approach. As a result, he was recognized in the media as a German Dr. House known. In 2010 he was awarded the Ars legendi Prize for excellent university teaching for his achievements. In 2013, Schäfer was voted Doctor of the Year 2013 for his teaching method by the Techniker Krankenkasse and Bild am Sonntag . Due to the large number of inquiries, the Center for Unrecognized Diseases (ZuK) was founded at the University Hospital Marburg in 2013 (today the Center for Unrecognized and Rare Diseases (ZusE) ). In February 2014 he became known beyond the borders of Germany through an article about his diagnosis of cobalt poisoning due to a defective hip joint in the renowned medical journal The Lancet .

Fonts

  • Changes in the lipid and apolipoprotein-AI- [apolipoprotein-A-], -A-II- [-A-] and -B pattern during oral contraception with low-dose three-step preparation and preparations containing progesterone derivatives , Marburg 1985, DNB 861231201 (dissertation University of Marburg 1985, 87 pages).
  • with Jürgen Schneider and Armin Steinmetz: Lipid therapy. Practice of cardiovascular protection . Schattauer , Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-7945-1706-0 .
  • Preventive cardiology. Coronary artery disease prophylaxis . Schattauer, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-7945-1835-7 .
  • House medicine. The diagnoses of “Dr. House " . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-527-50639-2 .
  • The disease investigator. How we help patients with mysterious diseases . Droemer , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-426-27644-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "German Dr. House" heals undetected diseases. Die Welt , August 8, 2013, accessed on February 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Vita Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Rolf Schäfer. www.vitanet.de, accessed on February 11, 2014 .
  3. ^ Ars legendi faculty award for excellent teaching in medicine 2010. Medical Faculty Publishing, accessed on February 11, 2014 .
  4. ^ Contact - Center for Undetected Diseases (ZuK). University Hospital Gießen and Marburg , accessed on February 11, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Rare Diseases - German Dr. House now head of the center. Doctors newspaper , January 2, 2014, accessed on February 11, 2014 .
  6. ^ Cobalt intoxication diagnosed with the help of Dr House. The Lancet , February 8, 2014, accessed February 11, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäfer, Jürgen Rolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist, endocrinologist, cardiologist, intensive care physician and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe