Klaus van Ackern

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Klaus van Ackern (born September 12, 1941 in Essen ) is a German anesthetist , former clinic director and former dean of the Mannheim Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University .

Life

Klaus van Ackern studied from 1962 to 1968 medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and in 1969 with the dissertation thesis shock and oxygen deficit. A new shock model for the Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as a fellow of the German Research Foundation and as a scientist at the Institute for Experimental Surgery at the University of Heidelberg and in Boston ( USA ). In 1972 he began training as a specialist in anesthesia and resuscitation , which he completed in 1975. In the same year he completed his habilitation with the habilitation thesis Influencing the contractility of the warm-blooded myocardium by various narcotics .

Act

His clinical career took him via Munich and Houston (USA) to Lübeck , where he took over the chair of anesthesiology at the Medical University there on January 1, 1986 as the successor to Johannes Eichler and successfully expanded the Lübeck Institute for Anesthesiology. In 1989, following a call as a full professor at the Chair of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Faculty of Clinical Medicine Mannheim at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, he took up the post of Deputy Medical Director and successor to his first boss at the Mannheim Clinic . From 1991 to 1999 and again from 2001 to 2011 he was dean of the Mannheim Medical Faculty at Heidelberg University. During the interruption, he was the medical director of the University Hospital Mannheim. He was also full professor of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine at the faculty until April 2009 . In his function as dean he succeeded in establishing several endowed professorships, establishing the Center for Medical Research (ZMF) and establishing an institute for computer-aided medicine.

Van Ackern was President in 1996 and Secretary General of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI) in 1997 . In addition, he has been the spokesman for the Convention of Chairholders in the field of anesthesiology for many years. His commitment in particular to relationships with Eastern European anesthetists was recognized, among other things, by an honorary doctorate from the Romanian University of Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) and the Order of Merit in Gold of the Republic of Poland .

Awards and merits

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  • Brockhaus Mannheim. Mannheim, Leipzig 2006
  • DGAI press release on the award of honorary membership (PDF file; 152 kB)
  • Meinolfus Strätling, A. Schneeweiß, Peter Schmucker: Medical University of Lübeck: Clinic for anesthesiology. In: Jürgen Schüttler (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00057-7 , pp. 479–486, here: p. 481 ( 1986–1989 Directorate Prof. Klaus van Ackern ).
  • JP Striebel, K. van Ackern: Faculty for Clinical Medicine Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg: Institute for Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine. In: Jürgen Schüttler (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation. 2003, pp. 500–508, here: p. 503 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Ackern, Klaus van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anesthetist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH eat