Wolfhard Winkelmüller

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Wolfhard Winkelmüller (born May 31, 1938 in Emden ) is a German neurosurgeon .

Career

Grew up in Minden / Westphalia , where Winkelmüller graduated from the state Besselgymnasium in 1957. From 1957 to 1962 he studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich human medicine and in 1963 in Göttingen with the dissertation radiation fibrosis of the lung Dr. med. PhD . After two years as a medical assistant and license to practice medicine, he worked as a scientific assistant in the Pathological Institute of the University of Göttingen.

In 1966 Winkelmüller began specialist neurosurgical training in the Evangelical Hospital in Oldenburg. In 1969 he was a surgeon at the Bad Zwischenahn Bundeswehr Hospital. From 1969 to 1971 he carried out research on the functional significance of extrapyramidal structures as a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt am Main with stimulus physiological and fiber anatomical studies. He also assisted in stereotactic operations in the Neurosurgical University Clinic Homburg / Saar.

In 1971 Winkelmüller moved to the Neurosurgical Clinic at the Hannover Medical School, where he obtained his specialist certification in 1972. In 1974 Winkelmüller obtained the Venia Legendi with the habilitation thesis The neuronal and functional relationships between the substantia nigra and the striatum . In 1974 he was appointed senior physician in the neurosurgical clinic of the Hannover Medical School, where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1977 and executive senior physician in 1978. In 1972 he introduced spinal cord stimulation in Germany to treat chronic pain.

In 1975 he used cerebellar stimulation to reduce spasticity in early childhood brain damage. He and his team developed experimentally and clinically methods for the quantification of motor disorders in spasticity and rigidity . His operational activities covered the entire spectrum of neurosurgery including pediatric neurosurgery. In addition to lectures in trauma surgery, neurology and endocrinology , Winkelmüller set up an interdisciplinary lecture cycle on the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. Together with neuropediatricians, orthopedists and urologists, he founded a working group for the follow-up care of operated spina bifida children.

From 1983 to 1992 Winkelmüller worked as a senior physician at the clinic and group practice for neurosurgery at the Paracelsus Clinic Osnabrück. Here, together with Karl-Heinz Otto, he developed the first German implantable drug pump for intrathecal morphine and baclofen infusion for incurable pain and spasticity.

From 1992 to 1995 he was a neurosurgeon at the Paracelsus Clinic Langenhagen and from 1995 to his retirement in 2003 he was the head physician of the clinic and group practice for neurosurgery at the Evangelical Diakoniekrankenhaus Friederikenstift Hannover (DIAKOVERE Friederikenstift).

In 2020 Winkelmüller was awarded the Otfrid Foerster Medal of the German Society for Neurosurgery .

Memberships and offices

  • 1975: Founding member of the "Society for the Study of Pain Germany, Austria, Switzerland" in Florence
  • 1988–1996: Chairman of the "Pain Section" of the "German Society for Neurosurgery"
  • 1992–1996: Co-editor of the magazine "Der Pain"
  • 1994–2000: Member of the Advisory Board of the "International Society of Neuromodulation" (INS)
  • 1995–1999: Vice President of the "German Interdisciplinary Association for Pain Therapy" (DIVS)
  • 1997/1998: Vice-President of the Neuromodulation Working Group of the "European Federation of the International Association for the Study of Pain" (IASP)
  • 2005: Founding member of the "German Society for Neuromodulation" (DGNM)
  • 1982: Honorary member of the "Brazilian Society for Functional Neurosurgery and Stereotaxic"
  • 2009: Honorary membership of the "German Society for Neuromodulation" (DGNM)

Publications

  • Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Between cross and sword: from the changeful life of a knight from the Steinhuder Meer . Niemeyer, Hameln 2002, ISBN 3-8271-9040-1 .
  • Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Meeting with Bishop Sigward von Minden : a guided tour through the Romanesque Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Idensen . Niemeyer, Hameln 2006, ISBN 3-8271-9185-8 .
  • Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Pilgrimage in the old diocese of Minden: en route on the Sigwardsweg from Minden to Idensen . Niemeyer, Hameln 2009, ISBN 978-3-8271-9186-1 .
  • Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Off to Jerusalem - on a pilgrimage with Heinrich the Lion . Schlosser, Friedberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86937-388-1 .
  • Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Does the soul live in the brain? Schlosser, Friedberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96200-056-1
  • Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Tears that don't dry - From Weimar to the fall of the Third Reich. NOEL-Verlag, Oberhausen / Obb. 2019, ISBN 978-3-95493-327-3
  • The neural and functional relationships between substantia nigra and striatum and their importance for psychomotor behavior, 1973
  • Radiation fibrosis of the lungs and their treatment with prednisolone and terramycin - Göttingen, 1963

literature

  • Neurosurgery in Germany: Past and Present. Blackwell Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin / Vienna 2001
  • Zenz, Michael., Ahrens, Stephan .: Textbook on pain therapy: Basics, theory and practice for training and further education; with 249 tables . Knowledge Verl.-Ges, 2001, ISBN 3-8047-1805-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfhard Winkelmüller: Radiation fibrosis of the lungs and their treatment with prednisolone and terramycin . Göttingen 1963, DNB  481907033 ( without preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Wolfhard Winkelmüller: The neural and functional relationships between the substantia nigra and the striatum and their importance for psychomotor behavior . 1973, DNB  760657203 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkelmüller, Wolfhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurosurgeon
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden