Wilhelm Rutishauser

Wilhelm Jakob Rutishauser (born September 2, 1931 in Amriswil ) is a Swiss cardiologist and former university professor who headed cardiology at two Swiss universities (Zurich and Geneva).

Life

Rutishauser attended the mathematical and natural science high school in Basel, which he graduated with the C-Matura . He first studied physics and then medicine at the Universities of Basel , Paris and Vienna . In 1960 he received his doctorate from the University of Basel.

As an assistant to Robert Hegglin at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital , he and his boss wrote the book Circulatory Diagnostics Using the Dye Dilution Method (1962). In 1963/64 he worked as a research fellow with Earl H. Wood at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, where X-ray densitometric measurements were carried out on the heart for the first time and, above all, the effect of high accelerations on the cardiovascular system of humans and animals was studied on the centrifuge .

Back in Zurich as a senior physician , he wrote his post-doctoral thesis on cycle analysis using X-ray densitometry in 1968 . From 1970 to 1976 Wilhelm Rutishauser was associate professor and head of cardiology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital. In 1976 he was appointed to the chair of cardiology at the University of Geneva and at the same time director of the Center de Cardiologie at the University Hospital of Geneva .

Cardiac catheterization , coronarography and interventional cardiology were the main areas of work in Zurich and Geneva. In both places he surrounded himself with employees such as Hans Peter Krayenbühl, Andreas Grüntzig , Ulrich Sigwart , Rüdiger Simon, Otto Hess, Rolf Jenny in Zurich and René Lerch, Bernhard Meier, Philippe Urban, Alberto Righetti, Vitali Verin, Bernard de Bruyne, Michel de Lorgeril and Jean-Claude Barthélémy in Geneva. In 1984 the book Silent Myocardial Ischemia was published and in 1992 the textbook Cardiologie clinique (2nd edition 2004).

Rutishauser was President of the Swiss Society of Cardiology from 1976–1978, from 1987–1990 a member of the Executive Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cardiology, 1987–1989 President of the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy and 1991–1992 President of the World Heart Federation. As Professor emeritus , he was President of the Swiss Heart Foundation from 1997-2004 , and since 2009 he has been its Honorary President. He is an honorary or corresponding member of numerous foreign societies and was an expert at the World Health Organization . In the military, Rutishauser led a gun battery as an artilleryman, later a howitzer division and as a general staff officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he worked part-time in the staff of a mechanized division and a field army corps.

Awards

• 1967: Prize of the Swiss Society for Cardiology
• 1968: Prize of the Swiss Society for Radiology
• 1975: Goetz Prize from the University of Zurich
• 1991: Paul Morawitz Prize of the German Society for Cardiovascular Research
• 1998: Medal of the European Society of Cardiology .

Individual evidence

1. ^ International Who's Who in Medicine. 2nd edition (1995). P. 398.
2. ↑ swisscardio.ch: List of the presidents of the Swiss Cardiac Society ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 20, 2014) 
3. ^ Change of president at the Swiss Heart Foundation. ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Media release of June 22, 2004, accessed on May 19, 2014.