Maurice Edmond Müller

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Maurice Edmond Müller

Maurice Edmond Müller (born March 28, 1918 in Biel ; † May 10, 2009 in Bern ) was a Swiss surgeon and orthopedist . He is considered a pioneer in osteosynthesis .

Life

Maurice E. Müller was the oldest of five children and grew up bilingually in Biel. He passed his Matura in 1936. He studied medicine at the University of Neuchâtel , the University of Lausanne and the University of Bern . The course was interrupted by several years of active service during the Second World War. He was a member of two student associations in the Falkenstein Association . After completing his studies in 1944, he began to work in the old Balgrist in Zurich . He soon signed up for a year-long medical mission in Abyssinia , which began in 1946. Back in Switzerland, he acquired his specialist in surgery (FMH) at the Liestal Cantonal Hospital . He then traveled to centers for trauma surgery and orthopedics across Europe and visited the pioneers in bone surgery to learn about their procedures. He was with Max Lange (physician) in Bad Tölz , Georg Hohmann in Munich, Robert Merle d'Aubigné in Paris and Friedrich Pauwels , the founder of biomechanics in Aachen. The visit to Robert Danis in Belgium in 1950 was groundbreaking for the treatment of fractures . The osteotomies and the endoprostheses of the hip joint became the focus of his medical work. After returning to Switzerland, he became a specialist in orthopedics (FMH) in Balgrist in 1956 , where he completed his habilitation . He held his inaugural lecture in December 1957. From 1960 he worked as chief physician in the orthopedic-traumatology department of the surgical clinic of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital . From 1963 to 1980 he was full professor for orthopedics and surgery of the musculoskeletal system at the University of Bern and director of the University Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery at Inselspital in Bern.

Entrepreneur

In 1958, together with twelve other surgeons, he founded the Working Group for Osteosynthesis Questions (AO), whose field of activity, in addition to researching and teaching methods of surgical bone fracture treatment, includes the development of suitable instruments and implants . In cooperation with the Bettlach-based instrument maker Robert Mathys , completely new tool sets for bone fracture treatment using screws, plates and nails were developed and successfully marketed within two years, from which the now classic four standard boxes from AO emerged, which were sold by the Synthes company . With Martin Allgöwer and Hans Willenegger he published the technique of surgical fracture treatment in 1963 .

His second activity, studying an artificial joint, led him to found Protek AG in 1965. Its purpose was to further develop and market the hip joint prosthesis he had invented . From 1974, the profits flowed into the Maurice E. Müller Foundation . These funds were used to finance training, research and documentation in orthopedic surgery at the University of Bern. In 1983, the ME Müller Foundation of North America was established to promote training and research for orthopedic surgeons in North America. In 1990 he sold his stake in Sulzer AG .

Maurice Müller was an important art patron . He donated the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Creaviva Children's Museum in Bern.

Benefactor

  • Maurice E. Müller Foundation (1974)
  • ME Müller Foundation of North America (1983)
  • Maurice E. Müller Institute for Learning, Teaching, Documentation and Evaluation at the University of Toronto (1993)
  • Fondation du Musée des Enfants auprès du Center Paul Klee (2002)

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thesis: The hüftnahen femoral osteotomy .
  2. ^ EH Kuner: Obituary: Univ. Professor Dr. med. Dr. hc mult. Maurice Edmond Müller. DGU Mitteilungen und Nachrichten 60 (2009), pp. 75–76.
  3. ^ Joseph Schatzker: Maurice E. Müller: a tribute. Excerpt from the funeral eulogy.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: AO-Dialogue 2, 2009, pp. 9-11.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.aofoundation.org  
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Maurice Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss orthopedist and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2009
Place of death Bern