Ulrich Ernst Wilhelm Bonk

Ulrich Ernst Wilhelm Bonk (born September 29, 1940 in Küstrin ) is a German doctor, professor of pathology , oncology and public health as well as a consultant for ethics in health care .

Life

Bonk studied medicine at the Charles University in Prague and the Humboldt University in Berlin ( Charité ) as well as ethics in health care with Stella Reiter-Theil, Basel and Nuremberg.

After the state examination as a doctor in Berlin in 1964, he went with his doctoral supervisor Carl Coutelle , who was appointed full professor, as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Pathology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . He did his doctorate on the subject of experimental electron-optical contribution to infiltrating tumor growth . He was the author of publications with the multidisciplinary working group on tumor growth. Bonk was prepared by Coutelle to head the pathology department in a planned tropical institute in Leipzig. The background to this was the dramatic increase in parasitic diseases (worms) among the Chinese and tens of thousands of Vietnamese who worked in the GDR during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam War. Through contacts with former colleagues of his mentor, he was sent on several long voyages as a ship's doctor, especially in the Far East for relevant studies on parasitology .

From 1976 he built up the Institute for Pathology for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . The subject had changed from autopsy activity to histological and cytological assessment with additional molecular examinations. For the students and doctors he wrote instructions and recommendations on how to handle the preparations of the "living patients". This resulted in the first German paperback of this kind: Biopsy and surgical specimen. Compendium for doctors and students . More books followed. In 1977 he introduced multidisciplinary tumor conferences in Bremen. In 1979 he founded the Tumor Center Bremen with Heinrich Maass and Karsten Vilmar , later renamed the Tumor Center of the Bremen Cancer Society, and he was the chairman of the association. Bonk was an active member of the American Society for Cytopathology ( MIAC ) based in Québec / Canada.

With the introduction of the practical year 1979 at the Bremen clinics, Bonk taught pathology to students from Göttingen . At the University of Bremen he regularly gave lectures in cytology and molecular pathology for biologists and on morphological and molecular principles in tumor diseases with Piere Rogalla for public health students. With the book Breast Cancer: International recommendations for an objective diagnosis , which he edited , Bremen won the tender from the health insurance companies for the pilot project to introduce mammography screening in Germany in 2000 . This made him the first German pathologist to work on this project and, in the years that followed, he was the second assessor of the histological specimens of other pathologists. Based on scientific molecular genetic work and assessments of dissertations with various types of tissue from the Pathological Institute, lectures and seminars for students at the private Jacobs University in Bremen were created in collaboration with Jörn Bullerdiek, the head of the Center for Human Genetics at the University of Bremen.

As a result of the tumor conferences and as chairman of the tumor center as well as the commitment of the young medical officer David Klemperer, now a professor in Regensburg, both founded an interdisciplinary pain circle in pathology because of the poor patient care. Bachelor and master theses of the Public Health course under the direction of Eberhard Greiser, Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine , were able to demonstrate a clear improvement in the treatment of patients through training and advanced training. This resulted in the hospice association in Bremen-Nord in the 1990s, stimulated mainly by female nurses who criticized the poor pain therapy compared to Denmark.

At the time of his retirement, biopsies and surgical specimens from 50,000 patients were examined annually at the Center for Pathology at the Bremen-Mitte Clinic under his direction.

Bonk lives in Munich. The captain of the national soccer team Fritz Szepan was his uncle.

Further activities and memberships

He was elected as a delegate of the Bremen Medical Association for three legislative periods, participated several times as a representative of Bremen at the German Medical Association and was a member of the Federal Medical Association 's committee for arbitration issues.

In 2006, after his departure, Bonk took part in the establishment of a clinical ethics committee at the hospital. He went to England and became a member of the General Medical Council (English Medical Association) in order to familiarize himself intensively with the British health system and in preparation for a voluntary work in Africa. He trained medical staff in Ethiopia and Ghana in the basics of cytology, given the lack of early detection of tumors in most African countries. As a member of the One World Medical Network with the Internet platform Campus Medicus , Bonk can give advice from Germany on the assessment of cytological and histological preparations from developing countries.

Bonk is state chairman of the association of leading hospital doctors in Bremen. Since 1982 he has campaigned for the introduction of clinical cancer registries in Germany.

In 2008 Bonk was elected state chairman of the Bremen Hospice and Palliative Association and one year later to the federal board of the German Hospice and Palliative Association (DHPV) . In 2012 he was elected to the executive board of the DHPV, where he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the DHPV until 2014. He was also a member of the steering group of the Charter for the Care of Seriously Ill and Dying People in Germany and was involved in the development of the national strategy for implementing the Charter.

Honors

• Honorary professor at the University of Göttingen
• Honorary professor at the University of Bremen
• Honorary member of the Tumor Center of the Bremen Cancer Society

Works

• Experimental electron-optical contribution to infiltrating tumor growth ; promotion
• Biopsy and surgical specimen. Compendium for doctors and students . Karger Verlag, Basel 1983.
• Ed. With Carl R. Meier: Zytologie und Haematzytologie . Sympomed publishing house.
• Ed .: Breast Cancer: International recommendations for an objective diagnosis . Urban & Fischer Verlag, 2000.
• with Hildegard Feldmann: Mammography Compendium for Curative and Screening Mammography . Schmidt-Römhild-Verlag.
• Volkhard Rippe, Norbert Drieschner1, Maren Meiboom1, Hugo Murua Escobar1, Ulrich Bonk, Gazanfer Belge1 and Jörn Bullerdiek: Identification of a gene rearranged by 2p21 aberrations in thyroid adenomas . Center for Human Genetics, University of Bremen, Bremen 2003.
• Under the name Ulrich EW Szepan: Farewell golf, sports book. novum pro Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3990031198 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Ernst Wilhelm Bonk in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ärzteblatt.de: Second assessment: Great agreement
2. ↑ Bastienne Ehl: It's about the individual . In: Weser Report (PDF; 60 kB)
3. ↑ Natureconference: Register