Peter Roggenkämper

Peter Roggenkämper (born September 10, 1941 in Duisburg ) is a German ophthalmologist.

Life

Roggenkämper studied medicine at the University of Vienna and became a member of the Corps Hansea in 1965 . From the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He became an ophthalmologist and completed his habilitation in 1988 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for ophthalmology . As a professor , he long headed the Department of Orthoptics and Neuroophthalmology at the Eye Clinic of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , Bonn. He discovered botulinum toxin for the treatment of paralytic squint . On October 28, 2006, he was adopted with a scientific symposium in his honor. Roggenkämper has been an honorary member of the Bielschowsky Society for Strabismus research and neuro-ophthalmology since 2009 .

Works

• R. Laskawi, P. Roggenkämper: Botulinum toxin therapy in the head and neck area. 2nd Edition. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89935-185-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Roggenkämper in the catalog of the German National Library
• US National Library of Medicine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 65/155.
2. ↑ Dissertation: Mediastinal Tumors: Results of Surgical Treatment in the Years from 1949 to 1967 .
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Comparison of the results of orthoptic examinations under mesopic with those under photopic visual conditions in various eye diseases .