Thomas Buck (doctor)

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Thomas Buck (born February 1, 1965 in Hessisch Lichtenau ) is a German cardiologist and director of the Clinic for Cardiology and the Heart Center Westphalia at the Westphalia Clinic , located in the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Dortmund -Brackel, an academic teaching hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum .

Life

Thomas Buck studied medicine at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After obtaining his license to practice medicine and doctorate in 1991, he initially worked in the Clinic for Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . In 1993 he moved to the Cardiology Clinic at the University of Duisburg-Essen . From 1997 to 1999 Thomas Buck was a Research Fellow with a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston , USA . He returned to the West German Heart Center at the University of Duisburg-Essen as head of a junior research group in 2000 with an Emmy Noether research grant from the DFG.

In 2001 he became senior physician and head of the echocardiography laboratory at the West German Heart Center in Essen . In 2002 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Duisburg-Essen with the subject “three-dimensional echocardiography” . In 2005 he successfully completed an Executive Health Care Management course at the European Business School (EBS). In 2009 Thomas Buck was appointed adjunct professor for internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Duisburg-Essen and in the same year became senior physician and deputy director at the West German Heart Center in Essen. In 2013, Buck moved to the Helios Hospital in Überlingen as chief physician at the Cardiology Clinic . In 2014 he moved to the Westphalia Clinic. Here he became chief physician at the Cardiology Clinic and has been Director of the Cardiology Clinic at the Heart Center Westphalia since 2016.

Thomas Buck's clinical-scientific research focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of heart valve diseases with a particular focus on mitral valve regurgitation . He is an international expert in the field of echocardiography with a special focus on the field of three-dimensional echocardiography. Since 2014 he has been head of the 3-D echocardiography competence unit as part of the NAKO health study , a German cohort study .

Honourings and prices

  • 1999: Young Investigator Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
  • 1999: Young Investigator Award from the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
  • 2002: Science Award of the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM)
  • 2003: Life Science Award from the Ministry of Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2003: Appointment as Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)
  • 2006: Appointment as Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)

Publications

Thomas Buck is the first or co-author of 92 peer-reviewed scientific publications (see the PubMed literature database ), numerous book articles and guidelines. He is also co-author and co-editor of the textbook Three-dimensional Echocardiography (Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-642-36798-4 ).

Patents

Thomas Buck holds 3 international patents in the field of echocardiography.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Curriculum vitae on the website of the Westfalen Clinic , Klinikum-westfalen.de, accessed on July 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ DFG GEPRIS , information system of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on funded projects of the DFG
  3. ↑ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Link to articles by Thomas Buck in the PubMed database
  4. ↑ Patent US 6544181 in the US patent database.
  5. ↑ Patent DE 10312883B4 in the DPMA register.
  6. ↑ Patent US 7654960B2 in the US patent database.
personal data
SURNAME Buck, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hessian Lichtenau