Klaus Peter (doctor)

Klaus Peter (born September 14, 1938 in Zopten ) is a German anesthetist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Peter studied medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1959 to 1966 , where he received his doctorate in 1967. He then completed his specialist training in anesthesiology at the Surgical University Hospital Heidelberg and the Faculty for Clinical Medicine Mannheim at the University of Heidelberg, where he was a senior physician and qualified as a professor in 1972. In 1974 he became associate professor there and in 1976 professor and director of the clinic for anesthesiology at LMU Munich. From 1989 to 2005 he was dean of the medical faculty (and during this time he initiated a training cooperation with Harvard Medical School, contributed to the establishment of the Biomedical Center and operated the merger of the University Clinics Innenstadt and Großhadern, which took place in 1999), 2005 to 2007 he was Medical Director of the University Clinic Munich and in 2007 he retired.

From 1999 to 2010 he was chairman of the ADAC medical council. He is an honorary member of the German, Austrian and Polish Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. In 1992 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1995 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit , in 2000 the Bavarian award Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum and in 1993 the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. Peter is an honorary doctor in Wroclaw. He is honorary editor of the magazine Der Anaesthesist .

He was instrumental in founding the medical faculty in Regensburg and is an honorary member of the University of Regensburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin .

Web links

• Philipp Kressirer, portrait on the occasion of his retirement in 2007, idw

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Klaus Peter (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 16, 2016.