Jan minor
Jan Witold Moll (born October 24, 1912 in Schönsee in West Prussia , † June 2, 1990 in Wrocław ) was a Polish surgeon and cardiac surgeon as well as a university professor . He was a pioneer in Polish cardiac surgery and trained Polish cardiac surgeons in his cardiac surgery school.
Life
Moll studied medicine at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , the University of Nancy and the University of Warsaw , where he graduated in 1939. During the Second World War he worked as a doctor in a hospital in Radom . After the war he moved to a hospital in Poznań , where he established and directed thoracic surgery . In Poznań doctorate he 1946 Dr. med. In 1957 he also received his habilitation there . In 1958 he received a call to the Medical Academy Łódź , where he worked as director of the clinic for cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery until his retirement in 1983. In the year of his appointment, he went to the USA for a year on a scholarship to work with Clarence Lillehei in Minneapolis , where he gained experience with open heart surgery using the heart-lung machine . He brought the knowledge he had acquired there to Lodz , where he used and developed the innovative surgical techniques in the following years. Under his leadership, in addition to routine heart surgery for valve replacement and coronary artery disease, since 1970 surgery for congenital heart defects has also been part of the repertoire of the Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery in Lodz. In the 1970s he introduced the implantation of aortic allografts , mainly for the treatment of aneurysms of the ascending aorta . Jan Moll was also head of the team that was the first to perform a heart transplant in Poland in 1969, but it failed.
Moll recognized the need for interdisciplinary cooperation early on and was a pioneer in establishing new treatment standards. Together with the gynecologists , anesthetists and cardiac surgeons, he set up a complex program early on in which pregnant women with heart defects and / or with artificial heart valves were under constant interdisciplinary supervision. During his tenure as director he trained clinic and department heads as well as 12 postgraduate students at the Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery in Lodz.
Honors
- Officer Order Polonia Restituta
- Commander Order Polonia Restituta
- Honorary member of the Polish Cardiology Society (1983)
- Honorary doctorate from the Medical Academy Białystok (1984)
- Honorary doctorate from the Silesian Medical University Katowice (1990)
literature
Jan Mol: Tajemnice serca - wspomnienia. Łódź - 1997; Wydawnictwo ADI; ISBN 83-85815-18-X
Jerzy Kuch, Janusz Skalski, Wanda Kawalec: Polskie szkoły kardiologiczne - kardiochirurgiczne - kardiologii dziecięcej. Warszawa - 2008, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, ISBN 978-83-01-15544-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Moll przeszczepia serce. Adam Czerwiński, accessed October 23, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minor, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moll, Jan Witold (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish surgeon and heart surgeon as well as university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kowalewo Pomorskie |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1990 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |