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Prof. Dr. Rudolf Pichlmayr
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Messmer, K. |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Abstract | This article is also accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger Prof. Dr. Rudolf Pichlmayr died on August 29, 1997, during the 37th World Congress of Surgery in Acapulco/Mexico while taking a morning swim. Born in 1932 in Munich, Germany he graduated from the Medical School of the University of Munich in 1956, and became a boardly qualified surgeon in 1964. In 1967, he presented his postdoctoral thesis to the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich for qualification as a Privatdozent. One year later, he and Prof. H.G. Borst moved to the Medizinische Hochschule in Hannover, Germany, to develop the newly established Department of Surgery. In 1969, Rudolf Pichlmayr was appointed there as Professor of Transplantation and Special Surgery, and in 1973 he was endowed with the first Chair of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery in Germany. He served his faculty as Dean for Education from 1974 to 1978, as Deputy Head for Research from 1989 to 1991, and as Chairman of the Ethical Committee since 1984. Rudolf Pichlmayr was president of numerous national and international scientific societies and organizations including expert panels, for example of the German Medical Association or the Department of Health of the Federal Government in Bonn. In 1996, Rudolf Pichlmayr as president of the German Society for Surgery organized the 113th Annual Congress in Berlin. There is no question that Prof. Rudolf Pichlmayr must be recognized as promoter par excellence of transplantation medicine in Germany. When gaining his first experience with experimental transplantation at the Institute for Experimental Surgery at the University of Munich together then with the late Prof. Walter Brendel, he already succeeded in attracting an impressive group of young scientists and physicians for collaboration in the development of heterologous anti– lymphocytc serum – the Munich-ALS – for administration to patients with organ transplantations. His postdoctoral thesis on Production and Effects of Heterologous Anti-Dog Lymphocyte Serum in 1968 received the von Langenbeck Award – the most prestigious recognition of the German Society for Surgery. Prof. Pichlmayr subsequently initiated and supervised a large number of experimental and clinical research programs in the field of transplantation surgery and biology, making his department a breeding place for transplantation in Hannover. It should be further noticed that the first kidney transplantation in Hannover was carried out by Rudolf Pichlmayr in 1968, the first liver transplantation in 1972. Many transplant surgeons in Germany and |
| Starting Page | 77 |
| Ending Page | 78 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1159/000008561 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/8561 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1159/000008561 |
| Volume Number | 30 |
| Journal | European Surgical Research |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Biography |
