Johann Michael Schröder

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Johann Michael Schröder (* 12. November 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German physician and Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology at the University Hospital of the RWTH Aachen University . The focus of his work is the research and diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases, especially with light and electron microscopic as well as immunohistochemical and molecular genetic methods.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1956 at the Christianeum in Hamburg-Othmarschen , Schröder studied human medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich , Vienna and again in Munich, where he passed the state examination and received his doctorate in 1962 on the topic of "Localization of Ammon's Horn Sclerosis in the Arterial Border Area". He then worked first as a medical assistant in Berlin and Cologne and - after obtaining his license to practice medicine in 1964 - as a scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Cologne-Merheim .

In 1965, Schröder did his military service as a restant in the armed forces : After a month of basic training, he first served as a medical officer in the German Armed Forces Central Hospital in Koblenz for five months , then voluntarily for a further month. In 1968 he was placed in the reserve .

In 1965/6 he specialized as a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, on electron microscopic examinations, particularly of the peripheral nervous system and muscles , which he carried out from 1966 to 1974 at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research , Neuropathological Department, Frankfurt / Main, continued. In 1970 he completed his habilitation in neuropathology at the associated Ludwig Edinger Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Schröder followed his first call to university in 1974 as a lifetime professor and head of the department for neuropathology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and his second call in 1981 to the chair of neuropathology at RWTH Aachen University .

Here Schröder established a neuromuscular working group with a focus on electron microscopy, which did not exist in Germany until then and in 1983 led to his being the first to head the newly founded neuromuscular reference center at the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy (DGNN; 1983-2004 ) and was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Group of Neuromuscular Diseases of the World Federation of Neurology .

In 1985, as chairman of the DGNN, he successfully introduced the field designation neuropathology (doctor for neuropathology) to the German Medical Association for the first time.

From 1965 to 2004, a relational database of more than 8,000 nerve and 12,000 muscle biopsies was set up, with diagnostic DNA analyzes with gene sequencing being able to access archived, embedded nerve and muscle biopsies for the first time from 1998. This led to the first description of several mutations and genes as the cause of neuromuscular diseases.

In 2003 Schröder donated the Theodor Schwann Prize of the DGNN.

Literature (selection)

  • Muscular pathology . Springer , Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1982, ISBN 978-3-642-68286-5 .
  • Johann Michael Schröder, Hanns C. Hopf, Gustav Wagner, Folker Amelung (eds.): Neuromuscular diseases . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong 1989, ISBN 3-540-50637-3 .
  • Peripheral Nerve Pathology . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Barcelona, ​​Hong Kong, London, Milan, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo 1999, ISBN 3-540-65611-1 .
  • Pathology of peripheral nerves . An atlas of structural and molecular pathological changes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Barcelona, ​​Hong Kong, London, Milan ,; Paris, Singapore, Tokyo 2001, ISBN 978-3-642-63209-9 .
  • Neuropathology . In: Werner Paulus, Johann Michael Schröder (Ed.): Pathology . Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-02323-1 .
  • Author or co-author of 329 original articles or contributions that are in the list of publications by Univ.-Prof. Dr. J. Michael Schröder are listed under Alumni / Team of the Institute for Neuropathology on the homepage of the RWTH Aachen Clinic.

Honors

  • 1983–2004: Head of the Neuromuscular Reference Center of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy (DGNN)
  • 1990–1993: Chairman of the Medical Society Aachen
  • 1985, 2002: President, Joint Meeting of the Belgian, Dutch and German Societies of Neuropathology
  • 1991 Duchenne Erb Prize from the German Society for Muscle Diseases
  • 2004: Honorary member of the German Society for Neuropathology and Neuroanatomy

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Johann Michael Schröder. In: Homepage of the University Clinic Aachen. January 10, 2016, accessed March 21, 2016 .
  2. ^ Theodor Schwann Prize. In: DGNN homepage. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
  3. ^ History. In: Homepage of the Medical Society Aachen. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Honorary Members. In: DGNN homepage. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and professor emeritus for neuropathology
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg