Norbert Pallua

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Norbert Pallua (born January 21, 1952 in Bruneck , South Tyrol ) was Director of the Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery at the University Hospital Aachen until July 31, 2017, and holder of a W3 professorship for plastic surgery , hand and burn surgery .

Live and act

After graduating from school in 1971 in Bruneck, Pallua studied medicine in Innsbruck and Vienna from 1971 to 1979 with an 18-month break due to military service in the Italian army . In 1979 he was awarded a “Dr. med. univ. " doctorate, and in 1980 he received, in addition to Austria, the Italian license to practice as a doctor .

His clinical training took place from 1980 to 1989 at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin with further training as a specialist in surgery and then from 1989 at the Hanover Medical School (MHH), which was formally completed in 1992 with the recognition of the specialty of plastic surgery . During his further training in Berlin , he obtained his doctorate in 1988 with the dissertation Risk and prognosis of aortocoronary venous bypass surgery in seventy-year-old patients at the Free University . In 1995 he received for his 1994 presented at the MHH Habilitationsschrift The systemic inflammatory response after severe burn trauma and its importance for the development of sepsis - The pathogenic potential of interleukin-6 in the systemic inflammatory response in a murine burn sepsis model , the instructor of Plastic Surgery.

He stayed in Hanover until 1997 , where he last worked as a senior physician until 1997, when he took up the position of Director of the Clinic for Plastic, Hand and Burn Surgery at the University Hospital of RWTH Aachen University as a full professor . In 2017 he retired there due to age. He was Vice President of the German Society for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.

Since then, Pallua has worked exclusively in his private practice , which opened in Düsseldorf in 2009 .

Focus of work

Pallua's clinical and scientific work focuses on reconstructive surgery of the head and neck area and the female breast, for example after tumor operations . In this context, he researched the use of adipose tissue transplants for tissue building.

literature

  • Norbert Pallua, Christoph V. Suscheck (Ed.): Tissue Engineering. From Lab to Clinic. , Springer 2011. ISBN 978-3-642-02823-6 .
  • Norbert Pallua, Hans Clusmann, Axel Heidenreich, Hans-Christoph Pape, Markus Tingart: Surgery in 5 days , Volume 2, Springer 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-20474-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth Kürschner, German Scholar Calendar 2009
  2. ^ A b c Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists, 22nd edition, Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2009. ISSN 1616-8399.
  3. ↑ ukaachen.de: August 16, 2017 - "Prof. Justus Beier new director of the Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery at the RWTH Aachen University Clinic "
  4. ↑ https://pallua.de/ under the heading Clinic , last accessed on June 5, 2018
  5. ↑ Sabine Rother: Belly fat provides valuable help in the university hospital . In: Aachener Zeitung . ( aachener-zeitung.de [accessed on March 6, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Pallua, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruneck , South Tyrol