Siegfried Ernst Miederer

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Siegfried Ernst Miederer (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German gastroenterologist .

life and work

From 1952 to 1962 he attended elementary school and the Ohm-Gymnasium in Erlangen and studied medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . There he received his doctorate in 1968. From 1968 to 1970 he was an assistant doctor at the Medical University Clinic in Erlangen under Ludwig Demling and from 1970 to 1974 at the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Bonn under Walter Siegenthaler . Here he completed his habilitation in internal medicine in 1976. Since 1972 he has been with Ute Miederer, b. Wernicke is married and has a son.

From 1976 to 1987 he was senior physician and head of the gastroenterological department of the Medical Polyclinic of the University of Bonn under Friedrich Krück. In 1979 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Bonn. From 1987 to 2006 he headed the medical clinic with a focus on gastroenterology at the Evangelical Hospital Bielefeld, teaching hospital of the University of Münster, as chief physician . In 2000 he was President of the Society for Gastroenterology in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 3 DFG programs, his scientific focus was on the correlation between gastric physiology and morphology. At Bonn University he first developed a disinfection device for flexible endoscopes in 1976 (exhibited in the Deutsches Museum Bonn) and for the first time in 1976 split a choledochocele transpapillary endoscopically. He developed the concept of bicarbonate batteries in the gastric mucosa and the basis for the bicarbonate system of the gastrointestinal tract. The ammonia jump of Helicobacter pylori explains the decisive phase in the development of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
He is also considered to be a co-discoverer of haptoglobin .

Miederer has published around 300 publications and written 13 textbooks in 5 languages.
In 2016 he published under the title Arme Schlucker - True Stories Pulled Out of the Body. a much-noticed book with anecdotes from his professional life.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Susanne Hamann: I have operated on objects 22 times from a patient. RP online from September 7, 2016
  2. Beate Depping: Drills, Batteries, Coins: What Dr. Miederer finds in the stomachs of his patients. Augsburger Allgemeine from September 7, 2016
  3. Stomach Treasure Trove - Dr. Miederer shows his trophies. on blich.ch from September 13, 2016
  4. A doctor operated on all of this from his patients. , TAFF of September 11, 2016
  5. A doctor and the stomachs of his patients: The incredible stories behind this photo. , Star from September 6, 2016