Raimund Erbel

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Raimund Erbel (born March 9, 1948 in Baesweiler ) is a German cardiologist . From 1993 to 2015 he was professor and director of the Clinic for Cardiology at the University Hospital Essen .

Career

school

From 1954 to 1959 Erbel attended elementary school in Baesweiler. From 1959 to 1967 he went to the high school in Alsdorf , where he also passed the Abitur.

Studies, medical assistant time and doctorate

From 1967 to 1973 Erbel studied medicine at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the University of Cologne . 1973 to 1974 Erbel worked as a medical assistant in the internal and surgical department of the St. Josef Hospital in Leverkusen. In 1974 he received his doctorate in medicine on the subject of " Determinants of intramyocardial pressure " .

Specialist training

Between 1974 and 1975 Erbel worked for Franz Loogen , the founder of the so-called "Düsseldorf Cardiology School" in the newly created cardiolology department of the Düsseldorf University Hospital . In 1975 he moved to the internal department of the German Armed Forces Central Hospital in Koblenz, where he stayed until 1977. From 1977 to 1982 Erbel worked in Department I of the University Hospital Aachen . In 1981 he became a specialist in internal medicine, and in 1982 he was qualified as a cardiologist. In 1982 he moved to the medical clinic || of the University Medicine of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Habilitation and work as a university professor

In 1982 Erbel completed his habilitation with Sven Effert in Aachen on the subject of " Functional diagnostics of the left ventricle using two-dimensional echocardiography ". 1983 Erbel in Mainz for C2 - professor , first at the time, in 1987 then appointed for life. In 1993, Erbel followed the call to C4 professor for cardiology at the University of Essen (today: University of Duisburg-Essen ) and became director of the cardiological clinic at the University Hospital Essen . During his term of office, the conception fell in 1995, the start of construction in 1999 and the inauguration of the new building of the “West German Heart Center Essen” with the world's first hybrid room for joint interventions by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons . In 2005, the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation took place here in Germany . Other main research areas of Erbels in Essen were a .:

In the field of epidemiology , the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study, supported by the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation , should be mentioned, which was initiated and led by Erbel together with the Essen epidemiologist Karl-Heinz Jöckel . On May 31, 2015, Erbel held his final lecture on the topic of “ The path to cardiology 2015 - 45 years of cardiovascular medicine in fast motion ” and was retired. In the course of his academic career, Erbel has published more than 1,300 publications; he supervises over 100 doctorates and 18 post-doctorates.

Activity after retirement

Erbel has been working in cardiology in a private outpatient department at Essen's Krupp Hospital since autumn 2015 .

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Breithardt, Ludger Seipel: Laudation on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Professor Dr. med. Dr. hc Franz Loogen. In: Clinical Research in Cardiology. Vol. 98 (2009), pp. 341-343, doi: 10.1007 / s00392-009-0030-4
  2. ↑ The West German Heart Center Essen , brochure as of September 2009, online publication, accessed on May 19, 2019
  3. ↑ 1000th heart valve in 10 years on the website of the city of Essen, accessed on May 19, 2019
  4. ↑ Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study and Heinz Nixdorf Recall MehrGenerationenStudie on the website of the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation, accessed on May 19, 2019
  5. ↑ Heinz Nixdorf Recall MehrGenerationenStudie on the website of the University of Duisburg-Essen, accessed on May 19, 2019
  6. ^ Raimund Erbel retires on the website of the city of Essen, accessed on May 19, 2019
  7. ↑ The team of scientists from the University of Essen received the Ruhr Area Innovation Prize on the Science Information Service website, accessed on May 18, 2019
  8. ↑ Cardiologist Prof. Erbel distinguished on the website of the University Hospital Essen, accessed on May 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Erbel, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Baesweiler