Christoph Broelsch

Christoph Broelsch (born 14 September 1944 in Hanau) is a German surgeon and former high school teacher. Broelsch pioneered the liver transplant surgery. In 1989 he was the first to successfully perform a live liver transplant.[1]

Life and Work

Broelsch grew up in the hanseatic city of Bremen. He studied medicine at the University of Cologne and Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1984 he was appointed to the University of Chicago and became the chairman of hepatobiliary transplant. In 1991, Broelsch managed the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. From 1998 until his suspension in 2007 Broelsch was Director of the Department of General and Transplant Surgery of the University Hospital Essen.

Broelsch, for his services in 1991 with the Federal Cross of Merit and in 2004, was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2] In 2002 he received the Lucie-Bolte-price. Broelsch was the physician of President Johannes Rau.

Judicial procedures

Broelsch was in several proceedings for corruption, fraud and accused tax and sentenced at first instance. He was accused of ill patients treated only with increased payments. Against the verdict, both the prosecution presented Essen, as well as the defense review at the Federal one. The first instance decision of the Regional Court of Essen is therefore not currently in force[3][4][5][6][7]

Publications

References

  1. http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/specialties/transplant/patient-stories/alyssa-liver.html
  2. -Merit-of-Merit-the-Federal Republic-Germany-for-professor-chris-bro-2831 / Notification of NRW
  3. Peter Lamprecht. Broelsch to an open ?, The World, 14 March 2010
  4. 1518,683179,00.Html fraud trial court sentenced to three years imprisonment surgeons Star, The Mirror, 12 March 2010
  5. Martina Keller: "The cashier", Time, 17 September 2009
  6. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/German+transplant+surgeon+Christoph+Broelsch+embroiled+in+payment+for...-a0100232705
  7. http://www.allbusiness.com/health-care-social-assistance/ambulatory-health-services/524877-1.html
  8. http://www.labome.org/expert/germany/university/broelsch/christoph-e-broelsch-264108.html
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