Xavier Rogiers

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Xavier Rogiers (born November 1, 1956 in Ypres , West Flanders , † November 20, 2019 ) was a Belgian surgeon . He was a pioneer in child liver transplant surgery.

Life

After graduating from Sint-Vincentius-College in Ypres, Rogiers studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven . In 1982 he received his doctorate magna cum laude . He served in the paratroopers of the Belgian armed forces in 1984/85 and became a lieutenant. He has been a specialist in surgery since 1989, and was a Fellow in Transplant Surgery at the University of Chicago from 1989/90 . From 1990 at the University Hospital Leuven, he went to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in 1992 . He completed his habilitation with Christoph Broelsch in 1997. The following year he became director of the Clinic for Hepatobiliary Surgery and Visceral Transplantation. In 2000, he headed the 166th meeting of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons in Hamburg . Appointed to the chair of the University of Hamburg in 2001 , he was elected director of the transplant center at the UKE in 2004. He returned to his homeland in 2007 and took over the chair of transplant surgery at Ghent University .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b obituary notice Xavier Rogiers , FAZ from November 30, 2019
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Optimization of the liver splitting technique for transplantation in two donors: The in-situ split liver transplantation .
  3. ^ Rüdiger Döhler, Heinz-Jürgen Schröder and Eike Sebastian Debus: Surgery in the North. For the 200th meeting of the Association of North German Surgeons in Hamburg 2017 . Kaden Verlag, Heidelberg 2017, pp. 282–283.
personal data
SURNAME Rogiers, Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ypres
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2019