Olaf Thetter

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Olaf Thetter (born October 28, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian-German thoracic surgeon and university professor.

Life

1966 Dr. med. after receiving his doctorate, he spent three years at the 1st Medical University Clinic of the General Hospital of the City of Vienna . After studying bacteriology at the Walter Reed Military Hospital (1968), he was at the 1st Surgical University Clinic in Vienna from 1969. In 1976, he turned in Gottfried von Preyer Children's Hospital nor the pediatric surgery to. In 1981 he switched to surgery at the Munich City Center Clinic . The state insurance institute of Upper Bavaria elected him in 1985 as head physician in the department for thoracic surgery at the central hospital in Gauting. He has qualified as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 1987 , and in 1989 he received an extraordinary post in thoracic surgery . In the same year and 1994 study trips took him to Amsterdam and Japan and to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 1999 he returned to the Gautinger Klinik as chief physician. He retired in 2006 as C3 professor and Gautingen chief physician. At the Bogenhausen Clinic and the Munich-Schwabing Clinic (2008–2014) he helped set up a lung center. He wrote 165 original papers, 62 book chapters and 283 abstracts and gave 525 scientific lectures.

Professional societies

In 1998/99 he was chairman of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons . 2001–2004 he represented thoracic surgery in the German Society for Pneumology . From 2003 to 2005 he was President of the German Society for Thoracic Surgery and a member of the board and the Presidium of the German Society for Surgery .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Habilitation thesis: On the importance of the kallikrein-kinin system in the development of the ARDS: experimental studies to clarify the pathomechanism and the therapeutic effectiveness through targeted proteinase inhibition .
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Friess , Ihsan Ekin Demir and GO Ceyhan: 100 Years of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons . Munich 2011, pp. 168–169.
personal data
SURNAME Thetter, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian thoracic surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna