Ulrich Gleichmann

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Ulrich Gleichmann (born October 2, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German cardiologist , former university professor and a founding father of the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia in Bad Oeynhausen in East Westphalia .

He is considered a pioneer of rhythmology in German medical history .

Live and act

From 1952 to 1957 he studied medicine in Göttingen , Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1957 to 1961 he was employed as an assistant doctor at the University of Cologne , at the Henrietten-Stift in Hanover and at the University of Kiel . From 1962 to 1967 he worked at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf .

In 1968 he completed his habilitation in internal medicine . From 1967 to 1973 he was employed at the University of Düsseldorf .

In 1973, at the suggestion of Franz Loogen , the Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia appointed him director of the Gollwitzer-Meier Institute in Bad Oeynhausen , which had previously been balneologically oriented , where he founded the institute, which he said he did was equipped with a single EKG and a few beds at the time, expanded into a cardiological clinic. One of the world's first cardiological intervention techniques with the then newly developed coronary balloon - angioplasty brought the Gollwitzer-Meier-Klinik at that time international attention. The Gollwitzer-Meier-Institut was already working to break even two years after the restructuring. The number of inpatients treated annually rose from around 1,100 in 1974 to over 2,000 in 1983. The number of outpatients treated annually grew from 650 in 1973 to over 2,400 in 1983.

In 1976, the 1000th cardiac catheter examination at the Gollwitzer-Meier Institute was carried out under his direction . In 1977 he suggested a chair at the University Medical Center Freiburg as successor to Herbert Reindell and continued to work at the institute in Bad Oeynhausen; among others with Ulrich Sigwart , Tassilo Bonzel and Reiner Körfer , who joined in 1983 and whom he knew from his time at the University of Düsseldorf . During his preparation, the institute moved in 1984 to the then newly created Heart and Diabetes Center in North Rhine-Westphalia .

In the 1990s he became a professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Together with his wife, the university professor Sigrid Gleichmann (1939–2011), with whom he was married since 1962 and has three children, he founded the Cardiology 2000 Foundation in 2000 , which awarded the Werner Forßmann Prize for scientific work by medical professionals Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum honored.

Publications (selection)

  • Habilitation thesis : New procedure for registering the apex cardiogram: Experimental and clinical investigations for the quantitative measurement of the force and the speed of the force development of the cardiac impulse . Dusseldorf. 1968
  • From cardiovascular prevention to anti-aging medicine: Influence on telomere and cell aging. In: German Medical Weekly . 2011.

Ulrich Gleichmann produced around 360 publications in his life.

Honors

In 2008 he was accepted into the Westphalian gallery of honor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ceremony for the Westphalian Gallery of Honor on October 21, 2008. Accessed on April 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jacqueline Patzer: 30 is not yet an age. Accessed April 27, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c d EBCONT Communications: Current Cardiology. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ GMK: Chronicle. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  5. ^ Advertisement on the death of Sigrid Gleichmann. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  6. ↑ JBS: Excellent cardiac researchers. December 6, 2008, accessed April 27, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ https://www.medizin.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/aktuell/news00035.html.de
  8. ↑ a b Ulrich Gleichmann on https://www.researchgate.net. Retrieved April 27, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Gleichmann, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cardiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin