Karl Werdan

Karl Werdan (born October 11, 1947 in Langerringen ) is a German internist and cardiologist . His scientific focus is on cardiological emergency medicine and internal intensive care medicine as well as cardiac diseases in old age (cardiological- geriatric diseases).

Life and accomplishments

Karl Werdan went to school in Schwabmünchen and Augsburg and from 1967 studied human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU Munich). In 1973 he passed his state examination there before he was approved as a doctor and obtained his doctorate in 1975 . His dissertation , entitled “Regulation of metabolism through changes in pH. Investigations on chloroplasts ”, was an experimental biochemical work done at the institute of Martin Klingenberg . From 1975 to 1977 he was a temporary soldier in the medical company in Munich, where he worked at the laboratory for experimental radiology . From 1977 Werdan deepened his medical training in internal medicine as an assistant doctor at the Medical Clinic I of the Großhadern Clinic and made his specialist in internal medicine in 1984. 1985 followed the habilitation at the LMU Munich. In 1986 he was appointed senior physician at the Medical Clinic I of the Großhadern Clinic and in 1987 became a specialist in internal medicine with a focus on cardiology.

In 1991 he became an adjunct professor for internal medicine at the LMU Munich. In 1995, he succeeded Wilhelm Teichmann , director of the University Clinic and Polyclinic for Internal Medicine III in Halle (Saale), the chair for cardiological intensive care medicine at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU Halle), and from 1999 the chair for Internal medicine - cardiology. Since 2006 he has been the managing director of the center (from 2008 department) for internal medicine at the University Hospital Halle. He retired on September 30, 2014.

Werdan is closely connected with the discovery of acute cardiac insufficiency in microbial sepsis : the term “septic cardiomyopathy ” was coined, among other things, at a workshop led by Werdan in 1989. In 2001 he was one of the initiators of the Collaborative Research Center of the German Research Foundation on "Heart Failure in Old Age: Cellular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Influence" (SFB 598) at the MLU Halle. He was also one of the initiators of the CARLA study ( CARdiovascular disease, Living and Aging in Halle ), a long-term epidemiological study on cardiovascular mortality in Germany, carried out by the German Research Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt and the Medical Faculty of MLU hall.

In 1989 Werdan received the Albert Fraenkel Prize of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK). In 1999 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and in 2012 he was appointed honorary member of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN). In 2011 he received the Fritz Acker Prize from the DGK and the Fritz Acker Foundation, and in 2013 the “ Distinguished Leadership / Lifetime Achievement Award in Cardiovascular Sciences ” from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (IACS). In 2014 he was presented with the Leopold Lichtwitz Medal of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM), which was awarded for the first time . Werdan has also been a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Heart Research Foundation (DSHF) since 1995, of the scientific advisory board of the German Medical Association (BÄK) since 2007 and a corresponding member of the Austrian Society for Internal and General Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (ÖGIAIN) since 2009 .

Karl Werdan is married to the internist and cardiologist Ursula Müller-Werdan .

Works (selection)

• Karl Werdan, Ursula Müller : Mitral valve prolapse and mitral valve prolapse syndrome . With 17 illustrations. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 978-3-540-53558-4 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-76344-1 .
• Ursula Müller-Werdan , Christopher Reithmann , Karl Werdan: Cytokines and the Heart . Molecular Mechanisms of Septic Cardiomyopathy. Springer, New York, Austin 1996, ISBN 978-3-540-60175-3 (English).
• Hans-Peter Schuster , Karl Werdan: Intensive therapy for sepsis and multiple organ failure . 3. Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-540-64452-1 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-76344-1 .
• Karl Werdan, Ursula Müller-Werdan , Hans-Peter Schuster , Frank M. Brunkhorst (eds.): Sepsis and MODS . 5th edition. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-45147-2 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-45148-9 (1st edition 1991, 2nd 1996, 3rd 2000, 4th 2005) .

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• Come on, Karl . In: Benno Parthier (Ed.): Leopoldina . Yearbook 1999. Series 3, year 45. In commission at Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Stuttgart, Halle (Saale) 2000, p. 60-61 .
• Karl Werdan. (PDF) German Medical Association , June 30, 2013, accessed on May 1, 2018 . 
• Curriculum Vitae on the Leopoldina website. (PDF) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , June 3, 2014, accessed on May 1, 2018 . 
• On the retirement of Prof. Dr. med. Karl Werdan on September 30, 2014 . In: Medical Association Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Ärzteblatt Sachsen-Anhalt . Official bulletin of the Medical Association of Saxony-Anhalt. 25th year, no. 12 . Magdeburg 2014, p. 58–59 ( uni-halle.de [PDF; 3.6 MB ; accessed on May 1, 2018]).

Web links

• Person entry of Karl Werdan when Funded Projects Information System (GEPRIS) of the German Research Foundation
• Member Post by Karl Werdan at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Entry of Karl Werdan's person on the Saxony-Anhalt research portal