Volker Schumpelick

Volker Schumpelick (born October 12, 1944 in Jena ) is a German surgeon and university professor. He was director of the surgical university clinic in Aachen.

Life

Between 1965 and 1970 he studied medicine in Munich , Berlin , Hamburg , Göttingen and New York . He passed his state examination in Hamburg in 1970 and received his doctorate there in August 1971. In 1978 he completed his habilitation under Hans-Wilhelm Schreiber on the surgical treatment of gastroduodenal stress ulcers. On December 1, 1985, he took over the chair for surgery at the University Hospital Aachen . He retired on February 28, 2010 .

In 2008/09 he was President of the German Society for Surgery . He has written numerous textbooks and 65 publications listed in PubMed . He is significantly involved in the series of talks on "Medicine-Ethics-Law" of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Cadenabbia. Since 2010 he has published three volumes of patient anecdotes under the title Unterm Messer and one volume of congress stories. The five Suvretta meetings he founded and organized on the topic of the State of the Arts in hernia surgery from 1994 to 2008 were of international importance . Since 2013 he has been President of the European Hernia Society (EHS)

Schumpelick is married and has one son.

Honors

• Hermann Kümmell Prize (1975)
• Prize of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation 1975 ( Kurt Hartwig Siemers Science Prize )
• Dr. Martini Prize (1978)
• Honorary doctorate from All-Union University Moscow, January 24, 1994
• Erich Lexer Prize (2003)
• Volkmann Medal (2010)
• Karl Schuchardt Medal (2011)
• Karl Schuchardt bust (2013, for his life's work)

Works

• with Niels M. Bleese, Ulrich Mommsen: Chirurgie. Textbook for students. Enke, Stuttgart 1986; 8th edition: Short textbook surgery. Thieme, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-13-127128-0 .
• Surgery atlas. Thieme, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-432-27261-8 ; 4th edition, with Reinhard Kasperk, Michael Stumpf: Thieme, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-13-140634-7 .
• Pouch. Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-64058-4 .
• Hernias. Thieme, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-13-117364-5 ; 5th, completely revised edition. Thieme, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-13-117365-2 .
• Hernia Repair Sequelae. Springer, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-04552-3 .
• Made-to-measure medicine. Herder, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-30524-5 .
• Gastroenterological surgery. Springer, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-14222-2 .
• Brief atlas surgery. Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-13-164801-3 .
• Under the knife - patients in surgery. Kaden, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942825-09-2 (story and non-fiction book).
• Health system in transition. Herder, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30649-5 .
• Under the knife II - more anecdotes from surgery. Kaden, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-942825-13-9 .
• Demographic Change and Health. Herder, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-33333-0 .
• Under the knife III - new patient stories from surgery. Kaden, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-942825-16-0 .
• Congress stories - when doctors travel and meet. Kaden, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-942825-32-0 .
• Hernia Repair Sequele. Springer, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-7-5091-8266-6 (Chinese).
• On congress trips. Kaden, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-942825-44-3 .
• In the operating room, stories from the heart of surgery. Kaden, Heidelberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-942825-63-4 .
• with Georg Arlt, Joachim Conze, Karsten Junge: Hernia Surgery. Thieme, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-13-240551-6 .

editor

• The surgeon
• Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
• Acta Chirurgica Austria approx
• Hernia
• Surgery

Honorary memberships

• Association of Lower Rhine-Westphalian Surgeons
• Association of North German Surgeons
• Turkish Surgical Society
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
• German Hernia Society
• Austrian Society for Surgery
• Asian Pacific Hernia Society
• Senator of the German Society for Surgery

Web links

• Literature by and about Volker Schumpelick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Volker Schumpelick in the Hamburg professor catalog

Individual evidence

1. ^ Farewell symposium for Professor Schumpelick
2. ↑ Volker Schumpelick in PubMed
3. ↑ KAS 2010