Michael J. Mihatsch

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Michael Jörg Mihatsch (born July 11, 1943 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German nephropathologist who has devoted himself particularly to the pathology of the phenacetine kidney , calcineurin inhibitor toxicity and kidney transplant rejection.

Michael J. Mihatsch (2014)

Life and achievement

Both of Michael J. Mihatsch's parents were doctors. He attended schools in Duisburg until he graduated from high school in 1963 . From 1963 to 1968 he studied human medicine at the Universities of Bonn and Freiburg . The doctorate to Dr. med. took place in 1970 at the University of Freiburg. Mihatsch completed his medical assistant time at clinics in Freiburg and Duisburg. The further training to become a specialist in pathology took place from 1970 at the Institute for Pathology of the Cantonal Hospital Basel . Mihatsch completed his advanced training in kidney pathology under the direction of Hans Ulrich Zollinger in Basel. In 1978 he qualified as a professor in pathology. He was appointed head of the kidney pathology department in 1984, and was appointed associate professor in 1985. In 1988, Mihatsch took over the management of the Institute for Pathology at Basel University Hospital and in 1989 was elected full professor . From 1990 he was President of the Young Talent Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation . From 2000 to 2005 he was Vice Dean for the Promotion of Young Talent. Mihatsch retired in 2007 and has since worked as a consultant for kidney pathology at the institute. From 2007 to 2013 he was Chairman of the Working Group on Renal Pathology of the European Society of Pathology.

Since his dissertation on kidney transplants in dogs, Mihatsch's research interests have been in the field of kidney diseases . First the ultrastructural pathology of glomerular kidney diseases was the focus, then the pathogenesis of the phenacetin kidney and urinary tract tumors caused by phenacetin , later the pathology of the calcineurin inhibitor toxicity and various aspects of humoral and cellular transplant rejection . His research also focused on polyomavirus nephropathy and tumor pathology of the kidneys , urinary tract and prostate .

The work of Mihatsch, together with Basel clinicians, made a decisive contribution to the fact that the active ingredient phenacetin - identified as a trigger for analgesic nephropathy and malignant urinary tract tumors - was banned in Switzerland and other Western European countries. In 2006 he was able to report that in the autopsy material of the University Hospital Basel, 20 years after the phenacetin ban, the analgesic nephropathy had almost disappeared. This corresponds to the observations of clinical nephrologists in other western countries.

"Mihatsch has made Basel a Mecca for budding kidney pathologists".

In 2004, Mihatsch was President of the annual congress of nephrologists of the German-speaking countries in Basel with over 1,000 participants.

Mihatsch is also active in the "Foundation for Children with Cancer, Regio Basiliensis" (2016).

Mihatsch is married to a doctor and has three grown sons. He is very interested in literature and art. He lives in Binningen .

Publications

In the Pubmed database, over 500 publications by Mihatsch as an author or co-author can be identified by 2014. There are also two books ( Renal Pathology in Biopsy , together with Hans Ulrich Zollinger, 1978, and Das Analgesika-Syndrom as editor, 1986). Furthermore, Mihatsch wrote several textbook entries in books on kidney pathology. Until 2007 he was also a member of the editorial boards of journals in the fields of pathology and nephrology.

Awards

literature

  • Martin Hicklin: Got on the kidney in Basel. The Basel pathologist Michael Mihatsch is more than just a Congress President. In: Basler Zeitung . September 17, 2004.
  • Martin Hicklin: I leave as a satisfied person. The previous head of pathology in Basel, Michael J. Mihatsch, is devoting himself to new tasks. In: Basler Zeitung. October 18, 2007.
  • Holger Moch: Laudation for Prof. Dr. med. Michael Mihatsch. Awarded the Rudolf Virchow Medal 2019 by the German Society for Pathology . (Journal) The Pathologist (2019)

Web links

http://www.renalpathsoc.org/index.php?page=life Website of the Renal Pathology Society, with laudation on the occasion of the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010

http://www.stiftung-kinderkrebs.ch

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00292-019-00706-6 Abstract of the laudation for Prof. Dr. Michael Mihatsch on the occasion of the awarding of the Rudolf Virchow Medal 2019 by the German Society for Pathology

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Michielsen: In memoriam "analgesic nephropathy" (approx. 1972-2006). In: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation . Vol. 22 (2007), H. 4, pp. 999-1001, DOI: 10.1093 / ndt / gfl797 .
  2. ↑ Martin Hicklin: I leave as a satisfied person. The previous head of pathology in Basel, Michael J. Mihatsch, is devoting himself to new tasks. In: Basler Zeitung . October 18, 2007.
  3. ↑ Martin Hicklin: Got on the kidney in Basel. The Basel pathologist Michael Mihatsch is more than just a Congress President. In: Basler Zeitung . September 17, 2004.
  4. ^ Franz Volhard Medal to Prof. Dr. Michael J. Mihatsch. In: Communications from the German Society for Nephrology. 2014, no. 3, p. 59.
personal data
SURNAME Mihatsch, Michael J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mihatsch, Michael Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German kidney pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Gliwice