Roland R. Wauer

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Roland Reinhard Wauer (born January 1, 1942 in Treuenbrietzen / Brandenburg ; † July 13, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German pediatrician and neonatologist, scientist and university professor of paediatrics. His entire professional activity took place at the Charité in Berlin , where he primarily campaigned for seriously ill premature and newborn babies. From 2001 until his retirement in 2008 he was the clinic director for neonatology and intensive child therapy.

The focus of his medical work since the 1970s has been the respiratory distress syndrome in premature and newborn babies and therapy with the substance surfactant , which was introduced in the 1980s. It significantly improved the chances of survival for premature babies and revolutionized paediatrics worldwide. Roland R. Wauer was the editor of the standard work “Surfactant Therapy” and the author of further books and several hundred specialist articles.

biography

Roland Reinhard Wauer graduated from high school in Zittau in 1960 and studied at the Medical University of Sofia , Bulgaria (1961–1963) and from 1963 to 1967 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He obtained his doctorate in pediatrics in 1969.

As a student, he met Ingeborg Rapoport at the end of the 1960s , who was then the holder of the first European chair for neonatology at the Charité. Inge Rapoport became his most important teacher and mentor. She herself described Roland Wauer as one of her "scientific sons".

From 1972 Wauer was a ward doctor in the neonatal intensive care unit and from 1976 a senior physician at the Charité children's clinic. The focus of his work was the diagnosis of respiratory function in newborns, the lung maturity of premature babies and the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome.

He used his special technical talent in the 1970s and 1980s to find practical and intuitive solutions for the treatment of seriously ill premature and newborn babies in the GDR under the real-life shortage economy. The frame he erected from equipment rails in 1976 (internally called “Bockwurschtbude”) for the equipment in the neonatal intensive therapy room is legendary.

Lowering infant mortality was one of the central criteria in the contest for the superiority of the two political systems during the Cold War . Because the survival rate of premature and newborn babies in the GDR was high in international comparison, at times higher than in the Federal Republic, the GDR gained international recognition. For his scientific contributions to the reduction of infant mortality in the GDR, Roland Wauer received the National Prize III in 1984 together with Inge Rapoport and others . Science and technology class .

As a scientist, Roland R. Wauer was able to take part in numerous international specialist congresses in the 1980s, despite the state-restricted freedom of travel , and spent time abroad for work, for example as part of a five-month research fellowship in Sweden with the surfactant researcher Bengt Robertson (1980 ). For several months he worked as a pediatrician in Luanda , Angola (1982/83 and 1984). In 1982 Wauer completed his habilitation (The Respiratory Distress Syndrome of the Newborn) and has been a lecturer at the Humboldt University since 1984. During the GDR era, he was denied further career steps because he did not want to become a member of the SED .

After the political change , Wauer was one of the first four professors to be sworn in at the medical faculty of the Charité (July 19, 1993). From 2001 until his retirement in 2008 he was the clinic director for neonatology and intensive child therapy. As Vice Dean for young academics at the Charité, he actively campaigned for young academics, a major concern for him was and is the promotion of women.

After his retirement, Wauer increased his voluntary work for seriously ill premature babies and newborns at perinatal centers abroad. a. in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, China and Russia. For this purpose he collected incubators, monitors, warm beds and ventilators that were no longer needed in Berlin in 2007 for the intensive therapy of premature and newborn babies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Roland R. Wauer was a. a. Member of the Berlin Scientific Society, the European Respiratory Society and still active as a visiting scientist at the Charité.

literature

• Let live and die. The premature babies are also getting smaller and smaller. From the diary of a pediatrician, in: DUMMY magazine “Children”, winter 2005/2006
• Roland R. Wauer: In memory of Ingeborg Rapoport, in: Berliner Ärzte, issue 6/2017, p. 31 ( PDF file )

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland R. Wauer in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roland R. Wauer (Ed.): Surfactant therapy. Basis, diagnostics, therapy. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Georg Thieme, Stuttgart et al. 2004, ISBN 3-13-111203-4 .
2. ↑ List of publications at ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roland_Wauer
3. ↑ Roland R. Wauer: Inge Rapoport - Nestor of the German Neonatology, session reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin 115 (2013), 37–59
4. ^ Roland R. Wauer: Development of neonatology at the Charité 1960–1990 and the GDR research project perinatology, in: Monthly Pediatric Medicine. Pediatrics after 1945 Supplement 1 2016, p. 86 https://www.dgkj.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Machrichten_2016/1604_Sonderheft_Paediatrie_nach_1945_DGKJ_Erratum.pdf
5. ↑ Ingeborg Rapoport: My first three lives. Edition Ost, Berlin 1997, p. 415
6. ^ Johann Gross: turning point at the Charité. Verlag am Park, Berlin, 2016. p. 14
7. ^ Roland R. Wauer: The development of neonatology as part of perinatology at the University Women's Clinic of the Charité in Berlin-Mitte in: Matthias David, Andreas Ebert (ed.) History of the Berlin University Women's Clinics. DeGruyter, Berlin, 2010, p. 97, ISBN 978-3-11-022373-6
8. ^ Roland R. Wauer: Infant mortality in Germany and Berlin - differences in East and West. [Ed.] S. Zabransky. Proceedingband 2012-10 interdisciplinary SGA workshop. sl: Medical publishing house Siegfried Zabransky, 2012.
9. ↑ Roland R. Wauer: Inge Rapoport - Nestor of the German Neonatology, session reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin 115 (2013), 37–59
10. ^ Roland R. Wauer: The development of neonatology as part of perinatology at the University Women's Clinic of the Charité in Berlin-Mitte in: Matthias David, Andreas Ebert (ed.) History of the Berlin University Women's Clinics. DeGruyter, Berlin, 2010, p. 111, ISBN 978-3-11-022373-6
11. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2001 https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/29721/Pro-Juniorprofessur
12. ↑ Charité press release from September 27, 2007: https://www.charite.de/forschung/mektiven/pressemitteilung/artikel/detail/charite_hilft_fruehgeboren_in_usbekistan/
13. ↑ Annual report 2018 of the Neonatology Clinic https://neonatologie.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites/m_cc17/Perinatalmedizin/neonatologie/Klinik-fuer-Neonatologie- Jahresbericht- 2018.pdf