Mark Dominik Alscher

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Mark Dominik Alscher (born August 2, 1963 in Stuttgart ) is a German internist , medical director of the Robert Bosch Hospital GmbH Stuttgart and professor at the University of Tübingen . He is known for his work in the fields of peritoneal dialysis , acute kidney failure and expert medical systems .

Life

Alscher studied medicine from 1984 to 1990 in Freiburg. His doctorate was in 1990 with the topic: "Iron, copper and zinc concentrations in the liver and their significance for computer tomographic liver density measurements" (magna cum laude). He then moved to the Robert Bosch Hospital (RBK) Stuttgart, Department of Gastroenterology . In 1992 he was approved. He completed his internist training with rotations in gastroenterology, cardiology , hematology and nephrology. In 1996 Alscher worked at the RBK in the department for general internal medicine and nephrology. The following year he completed his specialist training in internal medicine and was appointed senior physician in 1998. From 1998 he worked at the Beth Israel Deaconess / Harvard Medical School and at the University of Colorado Health Science Center, both USA. He received the field designation nephrologist (2002) and hypertensiology (2004). In 2003 he received his habilitation at the University of Tübingen and in 2004 he was appointed senior physician. In 2007 Alscher took over the provisional management of the emergency room at the RBK. The University of Tübingen appointed him an extraordinary professor in 2008. In the same year he became chief physician of the emergency room and the department of general internal medicine and nephrology at the RBK, in 2009 medical director of the entire clinics at the RBK and in 2016 managing medical director (managing director of Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus GmbH).

Scientific contribution

Alscher has worked in the area of ​​peritoneal dialysis in particular, systematically working on the clinical picture of encapsulating peritoneal dialysis. The mortality, which was previously 85%, was reduced to 19.4% in the treated patients. Another focus is on medical expert systems, the analysis of which, together with colleagues from the USA and Sweden, has led to some work. Alscher has organized several symposia and annual congresses, the annual meeting of the Southwest German Society for Internal Medicine 2014 in Stuttgart and the annual meeting of the German Society for Nephrology in Berlin 2016 should be mentioned.

Memberships and scientific associations

  • Since 09/2013 Vice President of the German Society for Nephrology
  • Since 09/2016 President of the German Society for Nephrology
  • Since 09/2015 Chairman of the Southwest German Society for Internal Medicine
  • Since 08/2014 expert of the Federal Joint Committee (Berlin)
  • Since 06/2013 Chairman of the Health Telematics Working Group in the Ministry for Science, Research and Art (MWK) Baden-Württemberg
  • Since 07/2015 Advisory Board of the Coordination Office Telemedicine Baden-Württemberg (BW)
  • Page 05/2004 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Stuttgart)
  • Since 2007 Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (FASN)
  • International Society of Nephrology
  • American Society of Nephrology
  • National Kidney Foundation, USA
  • International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis
  • European Renal Association- European Dialysis and Transplantation Association
  • German Society for Internal Medicine
  • German Society for Interdisciplinary Emergency Admissions
  • German Society for Nephrology
  • German Working Group for Clinical Nephrology

Publications

Alscher publishes more than 230 specialist articles and book chapters with a focus on nephrological diseases including kidney replacement ( peritoneal dialysis , hemodialysis , transplantation), systemic diseases, rheumatic diseases and emergency care.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mark Dominik Alscher CV
  2. ↑ Latus J, Ulmer C, Fritz P, Rettenmaier B, Biegger D, Lang T, Ott G, Scharpf C, Kimmel M, Steurer W, Alscher MD, Braun N. Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis: a rare, serious but potentially curable complication of peritoneal dialysis experience of a referral center in Germany. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2013 Apr; 28 (4): 1021-30. doi: 10.1093 / ndt / gfs159
  3. ↑ Publications Alscher and Zakim (PubMed)
  4. ^ Congress for Nephrology. 8th annual conference, 2016 Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Alscher, Mark Dominik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German internist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart