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Gerd Heusch

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German physician, physiologist, and professor

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According to Wikipedia, Gerd Heusch is a German physician, physiologist, and professor as well as chair of the Institute for Pathophysiology at the University of Essen Medical School. Biography Heusch attended the Medical Schools at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bonn, where he graduated in 1979 and received his MD degree in 1980. Following obligatory military service as medical officer, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Düsseldorf Medical School where he completed his PhD in 1985. From 1985 to 1986 Heusch was research cardiologist at the University of California, San Diego under the mentorship of Dr. John Ross Jr. From 1986 to 1989 Heusch held a Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation in the Department of Physiology and the Clinic of Cardiology at the University of Düsseldorf Medical School. Since 1989 he is professor and chair of the Institute for Pathophysiology at the University of Essen Medical School. From 1999 to 2000 he spent a sabbatical in the Department of Physiology at the University of Southern Alabama, Mobile where he is adjunct professor since. From 2014 to 2022 Heusch was scientific chief executive of the West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen. Heusch served as president of the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research from 2002 to 2005 and as president of the German Cardiac Society from 2007 to 2009. As president of the German Cardiac Society Heusch put particular emphasis on the establishment of Chest Pain Units to fight myocardial infarction – today there are more than 250 Chest Pain Units in Germany. From 2008 to 2016 Heusch served on the medical review board of the German Research Foundation, from 2012 to 2016 as its speaker. Heusch is editor of Basic Research in Cardiology since 1992; he has been and is member of the editorial board of a number of prestigious journals, such as Circulation Research, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Cardiovascular Research and American Journal of Physiology. Heusch is fellow of the Royal College of Physicians since 2006 and regular member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2012, speaker of its medical members since 2019, and vice president for natural sciences and medicine since 2023. In 2022 he was elected as member of the Academia Europea.

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