Tassilo Bonzel

Tassilo Reinhard Bonzel (* 1944 in Olpe , Westphalia ) is a German doctor and cardiologist .

Life

Bonzel studied medicine in Berlin, Munich and Münster from 1963 to 1969 and received his doctorate in 1977 at the University of Düsseldorf . As a medical assistant and resident doctor, he also worked in the subjects of pathology, surgery, gynecology / obstetrics and internal medicine at the University of Münster . He received special cardiological training at the Gollwitzer-Meier-Institut Bad Oeynhausen (today Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia ), there together with Ulrich Sigwart under Ulrich Gleichmann , in the USA at St. Joseph's Hospital at Syracuse University of New York (SUNY , Prof. Gensini) and at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester / Boston (with Joseph Stephen Alpert ), as well as in the Medical University Clinic Freiburg im Breisgau (with Hanjörg Just ).

1983 Bonzel completed his habilitation in Freiburg on imaging in cardiac catheter examinations . He is an adjunct professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Until April 2009 he was director of the Medical Clinic I (cardiology) at the Fulda Clinic , an academic teaching hospital of the Philipps University of Marburg . In addition to working at the bedside, Bonzel has devoted himself to clinical research in Germany and America, later also to health services research and, there, to efficient patient treatment in hospitals.

In 1985 he invented the monorail balloon catheter for widening coronary constrictions ( coronary dilatation / PCI), which is used worldwide today. He developed the CLAIM software for documentation, reporting and quality assurance in the cardiology / heart catheter laboratory.

Bonzel was awarded the Sven Effert Prize of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK) . Among other things, he was head of the interventional cardiology working group , an expert at the Federal Office for Quality Assurance (BQS) and the Society for Quality Assurance Hesse (GQH). Together with C. Hamm and other co-authors, he wrote the DGK guideline “Koranare Katheterintervention (PCI)” and is co-author of the guideline “Diagnostic cardiac catheter examination”.

Tassilo Bonzel is married to Helen Bonzel, the founder and director of the Children's Academy in Fulda and holder of the Goethe plaque of the State of Hesse in 2001, with whom he has three children. He is a member of the KAV Suevia Berlin and the KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV .

Works

• Guide to cardiac catheters (extension of the guidelines) with C. Hamm and co-authors, Steinkopff-Verlag 2009
• Contribution to Evolution of Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Iatric Press 2006
• Article in ESC's Textbook of Cardiology (published 8/2011) about cardiac catheters.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tassilo Bonzel in the catalog of the German National Library