Sven Effert

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Sven Effert (born March 31, 1922 in Aachen ; † January 9, 2000 there ) was a German specialist in cardiology and full professor at the Clinic for Internal Medicine at the University Medical Center Aachen and founder of the Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Technology .

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Effert was the son of the managing director of Schumacher Metallwerke GmbH , Edgar Effert, and the singer Else, geb. Philips. After graduating from high school in 1940 at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Aachen and completing several months of national labor service , Sven Effert studied medicine at the universities in Bonn and Freiburg im Breisgau and took the preliminary medical examination in Bonn in 1943. He was then called up as a field doctor in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the United States in early 1945. After his release, he was graduated from the Medical Academy in Dusseldorf continue and 1948 with the promotion finish.

Effert then switched to the Düsseldorf Municipal Hospitals, where he completed his internist specialist career with Erich Boden . In 1952 he was taken on as a scientific assistant and was given the opportunity to intern in the X-ray department for several months. After Erich Boden's retirement, Effert worked under Franz Grosse-Brockhoff , who became director of the Medical Clinic I in Düsseldorf from 1954, where he and Ernst Derra set up a center for cardiac surgery . In 1959 Effert completed his habilitation at Grosse-Brockhoff and was initially appointed lecturer for internal medicine and from 1965 as an adjunct professor. Together with the cardiologist Heinz-Joachim Sykosch , Effert was involved in the first implantation of a pacemaker in Germany in 1961.

In 1966, Effert accepted a call to the newly established Aachen University Hospital, where he took over the management of the Clinic for Internal Medicine I as full professor and medical director. In 1972 he was approved as a specialist in cardiology by the North Rhine Medical Association . Effert performed this service until his retirement in 1988 and died on January 9, 2000 after a brief illness.

Effert's scientific interest was primarily in the field of biomedical engineering . As early as 1967 he set up a bioelectronics working group at RWTH Aachen University , which was decisive for the foundation of the "Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Technology" suggested by Effert in 1971 being approved and funded by the Volkswagenwerk foundation for the Aachen location. Effert also took over the management of this new institute until 1975. In addition, he provided internationally recognized impulses in the further development of echocardiography , pacemaker therapy and intensive care medicine .

Sven Effert was a member and since 1990 honorary member of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK) and in 1981 chaired the annual conference of the DGK in Aachen as chairman and conference president. After Effert had already been awarded the “Paul Morawitz Prize” by the DGK, in 1999 he received the “Carl Ludwig Medal of Honor”, ​​the Society's highest award for many years of outstanding scientific work in the field of cardiovascular research.

In memory of Effert, the DGK launched the € 5,000 Sven Effert Prize, which was awarded annually to experimental and clinical scientists in the field of interventional cardiology from 2002 to 2012. After this honor was discontinued, the "Sven Effert Poster Prize" was announced in 2014, which has since awarded the three best posters presented for the annual DGK Heart Days with € 3,000, € 2,000 and € 1,500.

Effert was also an “International Fellow ” of the American Heart Association as well as an appointed member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Effert was awarded the First Class Federal Cross of Merit for his lifetime achievement .

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies of the height and weight of school children with the help of large number research . Dissertation, Düsseldorf 1948
  • The Current State of Ultrasound Cardiography . Habilitation thesis, Düsseldorf 1959
  • Echocardiography , together with Peter Hanrath and Walter Bleifeld, Springer 1979
  • New ways of treating acute myocardial infarction . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987

literature

  • Peter Hahnrath: Obituary for Prof. Dr. med. Sven Effert . In: Zeitschrift für Kardiologie 89/4, 2000, pp. 362-363.
  • Maren Friederike Weber / Dominik Groß: Sven Effert (1922-2000) and the establishment of the "Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Technology" at RWTH Aachen University . In: Research on the history of medicine. Contributions of the Rheinisches Kreis der Medizinhistoriker . University Press GmbH, Kassel 2013, pp. 391-413 ( digitized version ).
  • Maren Friederike Weber: Sven Effert (1922-2000) - life and work . University Press GmbH, Kassel 2018. ISBN 978-3-7376-0500-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/startseite/news-detailansicht/article/vor-40-jahren-pioniertat-kongress-zur-herzsitzmachertherapie-1.html ( Memento from February 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , Press release from Heinrich Heine University of January 16, 2001.
  2. ↑ Sven Effert Prize with biography
  3. ^ Sven Effert poster prize with biography
personal data
SURNAME Effert, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2000
Place of death Aachen