Joachim Hoitz

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Joachim Hoitz (born March 6, 1957 in Karlsruhe ) is a German officer and general physician who is not on duty in the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr . He is a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine and was the commander and medical director of the German Armed Forces Hospital in Hamburg .

Military career

Hoitz began his career after studying human medicine at the University of Ulm in what was then the Bundeswehr Hospital in Kiel , where he worked from 1983 to 1984 as an assistant doctor in the clinical admission year in the surgery , internal medicine and dermatology departments. He received his PhD in 1985 at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. med .

From 1984 to 1987 he was in the air transport squadron 63 Hohn and from 1987 to 1989 in the fighter-bomber squadron 34 Memmingerberg chief of the medical team.

Between 1989 and 1990, Hoitz was employed at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso / Texas as part of a Medical Observer Training in the areas of gastroenterology , cardiology , pulmonology , anesthesia and the emergency room .

From 1990 to 1996 he completed his training to become a specialist in anesthesiology at the Ulm Army Hospital. He also earned the additional title of transfusion medicine .

From 1996 to 2001 Hoitz was employed at the Bundeswehr Hospital Ulm as a senior physician in the anesthesia and intensive care department. During this time he acquired the additional designations "special anesthesiological intensive medicine " and " emergency medicine ". He was also the person in charge of transfusions at the Bundeswehr hospital in Ulm.

From 2001 to 2012 he was employed as a senior physician in the anesthesia and intensive care medicine department at the German Armed Forces Hospital in Hamburg. At the same time, he was accredited as an examiner and specialist observer at the Hamburg Medical Association for anesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine and as a member of the advanced training committee of the Hamburg Medical Association.

While he was the deputy chief physician from 2003 to 2012 and also as the medical coordinator of interdisciplinary processes from 2010 to 2012, he was appointed commander and medical officer from June 2012 onwards with the provisional and on September 6, 2012 with the permanent management of the Hamburg Armed Forces Hospital Director (the term "chief physician" was used until September 30, 2017).

On September 26, 2019, Hoitz handed over command to Admiral Doctor Knut Reuter and retired after 43 years of service.

Hoitz was used as an anesthesiologist in several foreign missions of the Bundeswehr .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Welcome to the Bundeswehr Hospital in Hamburg. In: PIZ Bundeswehr. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ Commander and Medical Director. In: PIZ Bundeswehr. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ Bundeswehr medical service: New chief physician in Hamburg. In: www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  4. ^ Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg with new management. In: https://www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de . PIZ Central Medical Service, September 27, 2019, accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  5. In conversation with General Doctor Dr. Joachim Hoitz. In: PIZ Bundeswehr. February 1, 2016, accessed August 21, 2019 .