Peer Joechel

Peer Joechel (born March 6, 1967 in Kiel ) is a German bobsleigh driver .

Joechel was a member of the national bobsleigh squad from 1991 to 2001, as a pusher until 1996 and since then as a pilot. In 1991 he and Volker Dietrich became vice European champion in the men's two-man bobsleigh in Cervinia . He achieved his greatest success at the 1993 Bobsleigh World Championship , in Igls he was world champion with Christoph Langen ahead of the Swiss Gustav Weder's bobsleigh . The 1994 European Championship in La Plagne brought Langen to win the continental title ahead of the later Olympic champions. For winning the world championship in 1993 he was awarded the silver bay leaf .

In 1992 he was a founding member of Leitwerk IT-Solutions and a managing director. From 1993 to 2002 he studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2003 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Representation of the cortical motor area of ​​the hand using functional magnetic resonance imaging using an artificial neural network at the Institute for Clinical Radiology at the Ludwig Maximilians University. Peer Joechel is a specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery. He is co-founder of the Ligamenta Spinal Column Center in Frankfurt am Main. Peer Joechel has specialized in endoscopic disc surgery ( Tessys method ), among other things . He was also the first doctor in Germany to use elastoplasty , a procedure that is used to treat vertebral fractures, similar to kyphoplasty.

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