Richard Schatzki

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Richard Schatzki (born February 22, 1901 in Klafeld , † January 19, 1992 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was a German-American radiologist .

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Schatzki came from a Jewish family. He was one of five sons of the graduate engineer Ferdinand Schatzki (1857–1910), who worked as chief engineer at Siegener Verzinkerei AG in Klafeld-Geisweid, and his wife Beate geb. Star from Schmallenberg . His brothers were the textile manufacturer Herbert Schatzki, the aircraft designer Erich Schatzki , the bookseller and antiquarian Walter Schatzki and the doctor Paul Schatzki. All brothers survived the Holocaust by emigrating .

After attending the Realgymnasium in Siegen , Schatzki studied medicine at the University of Berlin and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. From 1926 to 1929 he received specialist radiological training at the University Hospital in Frankfurt am Main with Hans Heinrich Berg. In 1929 he joined the radiology department at Leipzig University Hospital as an assistant . Here he published his first work on radiological gastroenterology .

After successfully completing his habilitation , he was not granted the venia legendi in March 1933 for racial reasons. Schatzki left Germany and emigrated to the USA. He went first as an assistant doctor at the Boston General Hospital in Boston . From 1943 to 1946 he served in the US Army, most recently as a lieutenant colonel . From 1946 he headed the radiology department at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he built over the years into a sought-after internship for medical school graduates at Harvard University . He himself taught radiology at Harvard as an Associate Clinical Professor .

Schatzki was President of the New England Roentgen Ray Society and Vice President of the American Roentgen Ray Society . The Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists awarded him 1973 with their Walter B. Cannon Medal .

Schatzki ring

Endoscopic image of a Schatzki ring

Between 1953 and 1963 Schatzki published a series of studies on a ring in the esophagus , which was then named after him.

Works

  • Contribution to the question of dermatomyositis (polymyositis acuta). Frankfurt a. M.-Niederrad (1926), zugl. Berlin, Med.Diss., 1926
  • Relief studies on the normal and pathologically altered esophagus. Stockholm [, Tryckerigatan 2]: Acta radiologica, 1933

literature

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