Nikolaus Konietzko

Nikolaus Konietzko (born December 6, 1938 in Kieferstädtel , Tost-Gleiwitz district / Upper Silesia) is a German pulmonologist .

Life

The son of a country doctor grew up in Neumarkt ( Upper Palatinate ) from the age of seven , where his family settled down in 1945 after being expelled and escaping at the end of the Second World War . After completing his schooling at the humanistic grammar school, Konietzko began studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1958 , completing it in 1963 with a state examination and doctorate on the “Influence of unsaturated dicarboxylic acids on the lipid metabolism of the liver”.

He completed his time as a medical assistant in Herford, Oldenburg, Berlin and finally Bremen, where he first began his surgical training with the thoracic surgeon Uwe Jens Wassner, who scientifically dealt with the (operational) performance limits of the lungs, a topic that Konietzko also later devoted himself to . In 1967 he moved to the Gießen University Clinic in the Medical Clinic, which was under the direction of Thure von Uexküll (1908-2004).

From there followed a one-year stay (1967/68) as a research fellow at the University of Illinois in Chicago with Robert W. Carton. In the “Department of Pulmonary Diseases” there in the Research and Educational Hospitals, Konietzko's scientific focus was on the induction of pulmonary emphysema by proteases, and in the clinical field on lung function diagnostics , bronchoscopy , bronchiectasis and brochopulmonary clearance (with Ruy Lourenco). Decades of friendly collaboration with the pulmonologist Robert Loddenkemper , which is reflected in joint association political and scientific projects and publications, stems from this time in Chicago .

Following his teacher Uexküll, Konietzko began after his return from Chicago at the newly founded University Clinic in Ulm, now in the pulmonology section headed by Heinrich Matthys, and completed his habilitation there on the subject of "Lung function testing with radionuclides".

In 1976 he moved to the Ruhrlandklinik in Essen-Heidhausen as head of the “Internal Medicine and Functional Diagnostics” department, which the Medical Director Werner Maaßen had set up. In 1985 Konietzko von Maaßen took over the management of the Ruhrlandklinik, which he expanded into a lung specialist clinic. In 1990 Konietzko was appointed professor in the pulmonology department at the University Hospital Essen and, as the holder of this chair, became a “pioneer in the integration of large lung clinics into German university medicine”. In 2009, under his successor Helmut Teschler, this led to the takeover of the Ruhrlandklinik as the West German Lung Center by the Essen University Hospital as the new provider.

Nikolaus Konietzko is married to Traute Konietzko; they have three children.

Focus

In Konietzko's aegis at the Ruhrlandklinik falls u. a. the establishment of the special departments for interstitial lung diseases (headed by Ulrich Costabel) and for adult cystic fibrosis patients (Drs. Karin Hübner and Karin Skroka), the establishment of a respiratory sleep laboratory, the specialization in respiratory weaning and the implementation of the first lung transplant in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1990 by Georgios Stamatis in cooperation with the Transplant Center of the University of Essen.

Konietzko's research and publications extended to the areas of functional diagnostics, isotope diagnostics, asbestos and lungs, pulmonary emphysema (especially in alpha-1 antiprotease deficiency), bronchitis , sleep apnea , AIDS and lung diseases, tuberculosis , interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension . He was also involved in recommendations of the DGP , the DZK and the German Respiratory League. Konietzko is considered to be one of the lung specialists in Germany (Focus: The Great Doctors List 2000) with an international reputation.

Together with Helmut Fabel, he was co-founder and editor of the white paper Lunge (first published in 1996 with new editions in 2000, 2005 and 2014), which gives an overview of the state of pulmonology in Germany.

Konietzko was politically active in pneumology societies at national and international level and, as a member of the European School of Respiratory Medicine of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), carried out a survey on the status and development of the field of pneumology at European universities.

After his retirement, Konietzko became involved in tobacco prevention (coordinator of "Smokeless Schools in Essen") and is active in the fight against tuberculosis. Konietzko supports an Indian tuberculosis hospital (Tb & Chest Disease Hospital) financed by the wortundtat foundation ( Heinz-Horst Deichmann ) in Andra Pradesch, which he advises several times a year on site.

Membership and Features

Nikolaus Konietzko is a member of specialist societies and organizations in which he has held leading positions:

• American Thoracic Society (1968), Co-Chairman of the ATS / ERS Task Force on Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency (1998-2005)
• Societas Europaea Pneumologica (SEP, forerunner of the ERS), member of the scientific committee and head of the "Scientific Section on Radiology / Nuclear Medicine"
• Founding member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS, 1990), member of the ERS European School of Respiratory Medicine, ERS delegate to the UEMS Pneumology Committee, Chairman of the ERS Congress in Berlin (2001), initiator of the first ERS Lung Run, Chairman of the European Board of Accreditation in Pneumology (2001-2004)
• President of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) (1995/96)
• President of the German Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis (DZK) (1995/96)
• Deputy chairman of the scientific section Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis of the DGP
• German Lung Foundation (founding member and board of trustees)
• Rhenish-Westphalian Society for Lung and Bronchial Medicine (Scientific Advisory Board 1982, Chairman 1981, Managing Director 1991-2006)
• Scientific Working Group for the Therapy of Lung Diseases (WATL) (board member)
• German Research Foundation (DFG), main reviewer medicine 1999
• Academy for Pneumological Further Education (APFW), (Chairman 2002)
• Founder and member of the editorial team of the journal Der Pneumologe (2004–2013)
• German Sarcoid Association (Advisory Board) and member of the Board of Trustees of the Sarcoid Foundation
• Society for Radiation Research (GSF), Neuherberg (Scientific Advisory Board)
• Society for the Promotion of Air Hygiene and Silicosis Research, Düsseldorf (Board of Trustees)
• Alpha-1 AT International Registry (AIR) (Co-Founder and First President)
• Speaker of the chief physicians of the clinics in the LVA Rheinprovinz (1986)

Publications (selection)

Konietzko's scientific work comprises around 400 publications as author or co-author, including 200 articles listed in PubMed . As a member of the editorial board and the scientific advisory board, he worked for the specialist journals Pneumology, Respiratory and Lung Diseases, The Pulmonologist, Hospital Doctor and Somnology.

(Co-) editorships:

• Lung function diagnostics with radionuclides (1977)
• Lung Function Diagnostics with Radionuclides - Physiology, Pathophysiology, Clinic (1977)
• Pulmonary Function Diagnostics in Lung Surgery - Possibilities and Limitations of Invasive Measures (1988)
• AIDS and Lungs (1988)
• Atlas of pulmonary functional diagnostics (1989)
• Pulmonary emphysema in severe Alpha 1-Pi deficiency (1989)
• Lungs and the world of work (1990)
• Generalized Lung Parenchyma Diseases (1990)
• Pulmonary Hypertension - Cor pulmonale (1991)
• Sleep apnea (1992 and 1998)
• Bronchitis (1995)
• Diseases of the Lungs (1995)
• 100 years of the German Central Committee to Combat Tuberculosis (1996)
• White Paper Lung - The Lung and its Diseases: On the Situation of Pneumology in Germany (1996, 2000, 2005, 2014)
• Tuberculosis (1999)
• Pharmacotherapy of bronchopulmonary diseases (2000)
• Ruhrlandklinik - The Lung Center 100 Years (1902-2002)
• 100 years DGP-100 years German pulmonology (2010)

Awards

Honorary member of the DGP Honorary member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Society for Lung and Bronchial Medicine (since 2008 West German Society for Pneumology)

literature

• Konietzko, Nikolaus: India's fight against tuberculosis - an interim balance
• Pulmonologist Prof. em. Dr. Nikolaus Konietzko in an interview with wortundtat
• 50 DGP conferences - then and now . Interview with Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Konietzko, food

Web links

• Ruhrland Clinic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Teschler: Nikolaus Konietzko on his 70th birthday. In: Pneumology. Vol. 63 (2009), no. 1, p. 56 f.
2. ^ ^{A b} Robert Loddenkemper: Nikolaus Konietzko on his 65th birthday. In: Pneumology. Vol. 57 (2003), no. 12, p. 773.
3. ↑ India's fight against tuberculosis - an interim balance sheet ( memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ pulmonologist em. Prof. Konietzko in an interview with wortundtat ( memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.