Jörg Rüdiger Siewert

Jörg Rüdiger Siewert (born February 8, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German visceral surgeon and emeritus professor . He promoted structured, interdisciplinary cancer diagnostics and therapy.

Life

After completing his training at the Rudolf Virchow Hospital , Siewert went to Göttingen in 1969 to join Hans-Jürgen Peiper . In 1982 he was appointed to Munich to succeed Georg Maurer . There he acted as medical director of the Klinikum rechts der Isar and taught general, visceral and transplant surgery as a full professor of surgery. He brought the clinic into the top group of German university hospitals .

After his retirement in Munich, Siewert held the post of Medical Director of the Heidelberg University Hospital from July 1, 2007 to November 2011 as the successor to Eike Martin (* 1944) . From March 2010 to November 2011 he was also acting medical director and chairman of the board of the Freiburg University Hospital . In November 2011 he moved regularly to Freiburg and until October 31, 2018 he held the post of Chief Medical Director of the Freiburg University Clinic.

In 2002/03 he was President of the German Society for Surgery . In 2002 he was appointed by the Berlin Senate as one of five external experts for the “Structural Reforms in Berlin University Medicine” commission. In 2003 he was elected President of the International Surgical Society (ISS / SIC) for the years 2003 to 2005. From 2006 to 2012 he was Chairman of the Board of the Association of University Hospitals in Germany (VUD), an interest group for all 34 German university hospitals. He has been a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and Senator of Section 17 (surgery, orthopedics and anesthesiology) since 1993 .

Act

His scientific specialty is the surgery of the stomach and the esophagus, in particular through the filmic representation of a self-developed surgical technique for reconstruction after total gastric resection.

Among other things, Siewert developed an operation to connect the esophagus and the small intestine ( esophagojejunoplication according to Siewert / Peiper) after a total surgical removal of the stomach . He also gave a classification of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus:

• AEG I distal esophagus approx
• AEG II Cardia - Approx
• AEG III subcardiac gastric approx

Siewert has published numerous publications , monographs , manuals, and surgical guides.

Role in plagiarism proceedings against Hans-Hermann Dickhuth

As an expert in the habilitation committee of the University of Freiburg, Siewert had a decisive influence on the fact that the former medical director of sports medicine Hans-Hermann Dickhuth was withdrawn from his habilitation in 2013 because his habilitation thesis did not match several doctoral theses.

Allegations of plagiarism

In November 2014 it became known that Siewert's post-doctoral thesis, which was created in Göttingen, had uncited matches with the doctoral thesis of his former colleague and current President of the Association of Leading Hospital Doctors, Hans-Fred Weiser.

A committee of three appointed by the rector of the University of Freiburg at Siewert's request, after reviewing the habilitation thesis, found that there was "no initial suspicion of scientific misconduct". However, doubts were expressed about the neutrality of the three-party committee, since one of the members, Stefan Pollak, is directly subordinate to Siewert under service law and another member, Kerstin Krieglstein, was elected to the office of dean at Siewert's suggestion.

In contrast, the ombudsman of the University of Göttingen expressed "an initial suspicion of scientific misconduct" in a meeting in mid-January 2015. The investigation was closed on June 12, 2015, Siewert's writing was not objected to. Critics complained that it was measured with two different standards, according to research by the Handelsblatt , the acquittal is allegedly based on questionable evidence. However, the University of Göttingen refuses to publish the report, although Heyo K. Kroemer , Dean of the Medical Faculty of Göttingen, had declared that the result of the upcoming Göttingen clarification was to be "communicated transparently and comprehensibly".

Honors

• German Cancer Prize (1994)
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st Class (1997)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (2001)
• Officer of the Legion of Honor (2001)
• Honorary member of the Bavarian Surgeons Association (2002)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2002)
• Honorary member of the Berlin Surgical Society (2003)
• Honorary member of the Polish Surgical Society (2003)
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Lucian Blaga Sibiu (2003)
• German Cancer Aid Prize (2004)
• Honorary Member of the Mexican Society of Surgery (2006)
• Honorary member of the American Surgical Association
• Honorary member of the Forum MedTech Pharma (2007)
• Honorary doctorate from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2013)
• Rudolf Nissen Medal (2015)

Publications (selection)

• Surgery , 8th edition, Berlin Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-30450-0

Web links

• resume

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tough dog in surgery ( Memento of May 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (FTD of July 31, 2006).
2. ^ New top management at Heidelberg University Hospital (as of January 3, 2007).
3. ↑ Heidelberg University Hospital: Professor Dr. Guido Adler becomes the new Chief Medical Director of Heidelberg University Hospital . May 23, 2012.
4. ↑ The head of the Freiburg University Hospital speaks about the future of the hospital (BZ of January 19, 2012).
5. ↑ Member entry by Jörg Rüdiger Siewert (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
6. ^ Sönke Iwersen, Jan Keuchel : Dr. med. Plagiarism ( memento of December 3, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (Handelsblatt of November 5, 2014).
7. ^ Badische Zeitung "Clinic bosses want clarity" (Badische Zeitung online from November 8, 2014).
8. ^ University of Freiburg: Unfounded allegations (press release of the University of Freiburg).
9. ↑ Laboratory Journal: Processing or eyewashing? (Labor journal of February 17, 2015).
10. ↑ Hermann Horstkotte: "University of Göttingen has Jörg Rüdiger Siewert examining university professorial exams" ( Memento from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Göttinger Tageblatt online from February 10, 2015).
11. ^ Südwestrundfunk: "Freiburg University Clinic boss Siewert relieved" (SWR online from June 12, 2015).
12. ↑ Jan Keuchel: "Under lock and key" (Handelsblatt, July 29, 2015).
13. ↑ Hermann Horstkotte: "University of Göttingen has Jörg Rüdiger Siewert examining university professorial exams" ( Memento from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Göttinger Tageblatt online from February 10, 2015).
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