Joachim Lohr

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Joachim "Jochen" Löhr (born October 21, 1951 in Heidelberg ; † June 5, 2009 in Vienna ) was a German orthopedist.

Grave of Joachim Löhr in the Fluntern cemetery in Zurich

Life

Born into a medical dynasty as the son of Berthold Löhr and great-grandson of Johann von Mikulicz , Löhr attended the Louisenlund boarding school . From 1971 he studied human medicine at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In the first semester renoncierte he the Corps Holsatia . He wrote his dissertation with Heinz Lüllmann in the pharmacology department in Kiel . After the state examination in 1977 he served as a medical officer in the naval aviators . In 1979 he went to the Wilhelm Schulthess Clinic in Zurich for a year .

Canada

In 1981 he followed his father and his second wife to Canada for a one-year fellowship in Toronto . He stayed longer and received his orthopedic training with a focus on shoulder surgery from Hans K. Uhthoff in Ottawa. After passing the 1986 Fellowship exam for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada , he was accepted into the staff of the University Hospital. He received numerous awards and became an assistant professor . Linked to his mentor Norbert Gschwend , he returned to Zurich for a few months as a Traveling Fellow .

Würzburg and Zurich

Seven years after the death of his father, he returned to Germany in 1991 with his wife and three children. In 1993 he completed his habilitation with Jochen Eulert at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and became a private lecturer . Since 1995 chief physician for shoulder and hip surgery at the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich, has been involved in the emerging European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology (EFORT). During the preparation of their first congress in Paris under Jacques Duparc , Löhr was entrusted with the management of the scientific EFORT committee.

Return via Lübeck and Hamburg

In 2001 he followed the call to the orthopedic chair at the Medical University of Lübeck . A year later he went to the Hamburg Endo Clinic as Medical Director . There he organized several meetings of the North German Orthopedic Association. Löhr was also involved in the German and Swiss specialist associations for orthopedics. In 2000 he opened the Bone and Joint Decade in Geneva. He returned to his wife and three children in Zurich in autumn 2008 and worked in the new Hirslanden private hospital group . Löhr died during the EFORT Congress in Vienna in 2009.

The German Association for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery has been awarding the Jochen Löhr Prize since 2012 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 78/724.
  2. ↑ Jochen Loehr Prize of DVSE 2014 ( Memento from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Löhr, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loehr, Jochen (common first name); Löhr, Joachim Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orthopedist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2009
Place of death Vienna