Otmar Schober

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Otmar Schober

Otmar Hubert Schober (born February 15, 1948 in Bad Rothenfelde / Strang ) is a German nuclear medicine specialist , researcher and university professor as well as a Catholic permanent deacon .

Life

family

Otmar Schober grew up in Osnabrück as the second son of the government director Oskar Schober and his wife Ursula, née Friemel. His parents were expelled from Gläsendorf, Grafschaft Glatz ( Lower Silesia ) and Sternberg ( North Moravia ) in 1946 , which had a major impact on his childhood. Schober is married to the radiologist Anna Schober and has three children and four grandchildren.

education

He attended the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück and, after the family moved to Hanover, the local Schiller School , where he graduated from high school in 1966. He then initially planned to study mechanical engineering, which he prepared with internships at Hanomag in Hanover and at Austin Motor Company in Birmingham , Great Britain . When he discovered that his talents were more in theory, he studied physics at the Technical University of Hanover , did his thesis with Herbert Welling and did his doctorate there in 1973 with the later Nobel Prize winner Gerhard Ertl . He followed him in 1973 for academic studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

He then studied medicine at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London . In 1979 he wrote his second dissertation in the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Special Biophysics with Heinz Hundeshagen in Hanover . In 1981 he completed his habilitation in the field of experimental nuclear medicine and in 1986 he was appointed associate professor for nuclear medicine at the MHH.

University professor and researcher in Münster

In 1988 he was appointed full professor and director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Nuclear Medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1994 to 1998 he was Vice-Rector for Research and Young Scientists and the Rector's representative. In these functions he was able to significantly intensify research at the university via the initiation of special research areas and also improve the personnel and technical equipment, e.g. B. by setting up a center for molecular imaging (with positron emission tomography ) achieve. In addition, he was a founding member and between 1993 and 2011 he was chairman of the Heart Center several times for a total of 8 years .

From 2002 to 2010 he chaired the ethics committee of the Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association and the medical faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University.

From 2005 to 2013 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 656) “ Molecular Cardiovascular Imaging”. In October 2006, he founded the "European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI, European Institute for Molecular Imaging )". From 2012 to 2013 he was Principal Investigator in the Excellence Cluster Cells in Motion (CiM).

Otmar Schober is and was editor and co-editor of several international scientific journals. For more than 15 years, from 1999 to 2009 he was the sole editor in chief of the journal for nuclear medicine .

Others

Otmar Schober is involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land and is a member of the German Association of the Holy Land . In 2007, Schober was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Carlo Cardinal Furno and invested on October 6, 2007 by Reinhard Cardinal Marx , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Schober was on 22 November 2015, St. Paul's Cathedral in Munster after four years of theological studies at the Münster Institute of diaconate and pastoral services (IDP) by Bishop Felix Genn for permanent deacon ordained. He performs his diaconate mainly in the parish Liebfrauen-Überwasser in Münster.

Together with his wife Anna Schober, he is the founder of the Schoberstiftung , an organization for Christian hospice work that supports the seriously ill and the dying.

Publications (selection)

Awards and memberships

literature

  • 1987–2013 nuclear medicine at the University Hospital Münster. The Chronicle

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten: Progress for Research , Münster October 21, 1999.
  2. ↑ Michael Bönte: Bishop consecrates seven deacons: " Thank you so much for these men" , Diocese of Münster , November 23, 2015
  3. ↑ Website of the Schoberstiftung , Schoberstiftung, accessed on December 13, 2015
  4. ↑ Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research NRW: Science Minister Schulze presents the Cross of Merit on Ribbon for Prof. Dr. Dr. Schober , press release from January 21, 2013.
  5. ^ EB: Names and Messages . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 112 , no. 6 . Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag , February 6, 2015, p. A-243 / B-211 / C-207 .
  6. ^ Resolution of the general assembly of the RWGN on December 2, 2017 (accessed on February 8, 2018)
  7. ↑ http://www.awk.nrw.de/akademie/praesidium.html accessed on October 23, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Schober, Otmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schober, Otmar Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nuclear medicine specialist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Rothenfelde