Karl-Heinz Vosteen
Karl-Heinz Vosteen (born January 25, 1925 in Hamburg ; † October 19, 2009 there ) was a German ENT doctor and university professor. He was professor for ENT medicine at the universities of Frankfurt / Main and Düsseldorf .
Life
After studying medicine, Karl-Heinz Vosteen initially wanted to become a pathologist and began his assistantship with the Hamburg pathologist Siegfried Graeff. A formalin allergy changed his plans in 1952. He switched to the ENT clinic at the Hamburg University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, led by Otto Steurer . In addition to clinical training, especially in tumor surgery, he devoted himself to basic inner ear research. Vosteen completed his habilitation in 1958. In the decades that followed, his research contributed to today's understanding of fluid and electrolyte exchange in the inner ear.
In 1962 Vosteen was appointed chief physician at the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg . As early as 1966 he accepted a professorship at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He built up a team of scientific staff that focused on tumor research and inner ear research.
In 1977 he followed the call to the chair for ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of Düsseldorf . From 1985 to 1991 Vosteen was President of the Working Group of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany ( AWMF ), of which he had been a member since 1975. After his tenure as President, at the request of the AWMF Presidium, he took over the management of the AWMF Guideline Commission and, from 1995 onwards, coordinated the development of medical guidelines by the specialist societies , which had been initiated by a recommendation of the Advisory Council of the Concerted Action in Health Care.
Numerous honorary memberships of domestic and foreign professional societies, international prizes and awards (e.g. Order of the Rising Sun of the Japanese state, honorary president of the AWMF ) are an expression of his clinical and scientific lifetime achievement.
After his retirement, Vosteen devoted himself to Hamburg's health policy. On behalf of the Senate, he pushed ahead with the structural reform of the Eppendorf University Clinic, reformed and tightened these institutions as chairman of the scientific advisory board of the "Central Institute for Occupational Medicine and Maritime Medicine" and continued to advise the Hamburg Senate on health issues.
On February 14, 2006, Vosteen received the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Jörg Dräger , Senator for Science and Health .
In his laudation , Senator Dräger stated, among other things, that Vosteen, as a representative of the AWMF, advocated the development of medical guidelines on the recommendation of the Advisory Council of the Concerted Action in Health Care . In a short period of time, under the direction of Vosteen, more than 1,000 guidelines for a wide variety of medical specialties - from obesity to burn medicine - were developed for doctors in several scientific conferences .
The Senator named the work in the Central Institute for Occupational Medicine (ZfA) as the second area in which Vosteen worked in Hamburg. He was chairman from 1992 to 2000 and has been an honorary member of the ZfA's Scientific Advisory Board since then. In this body, Vosteen campaigned to increase the scientific quality of occupational medicine research.
Web links
- On the death of Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Vosteen. , Communication from the Association of Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF)
- Image by Karl-Heinz Vosteen
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| SURNAME | Vosteen, Karl-Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ENT doctor and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 2009 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |