Gerd Heusch#
| Membership Number: | 5953 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-due.de/pathophysio/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7078-4160 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present scientific CEO, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen
- 1989 - present professor and chair, Institute for Pathophysiology, University of Essen Medical School
- 1999 - 2000 sabbatical, Dept. of Physiology, University of South Alabama, Mobile
- 1986 - 1989 Heisenberg scholar, Depts. of Cardiology and Physiology, University Düsseldorf
- 1985 - 1986 research cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Diego
- 1980 - 1985 postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Physiology, University Düsseldorf
Fields of Scholarship
- Ischemic conditioning
- Coronary blood flow
- Myocardial ischemia
- Heart failure
- Coronary microembolization
- Cardioprotection
- Stunned myocardium
- Reperfusion
- Hibernating myocardium
Honours and Awards
- 1972 Gold medal, Premio di Cultura Classica 1972, San Remo
- 2002 honour’s doctorate, Medical Academy Nishnij Nowgorod
- 2007 Honour’s professorship, Tangshan Medical College
- 2002 - current Adjunct professor, University of South Alabama, Mobile
- Fellow, APS Cardiovascular Section, AHA Council of Basic Cardiovascular Science, ACC, ESC, ISHR
- 2006 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
- 2012 Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Academy of Sciences and Arts, speaker of its medicine group since 2019
- 2022 Fellow, International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences
- 2002 Basic Science Lecture and Silver Medal, European Society of Cardiology
- 2003 Keith Reimer Award, International Society for Heart Research
- 2004 Paul Morawitz Award, German Cardiac Society
- 2010 Hans-Peter Krayenbühl Award, International Academy of Cardiology
- 2011 Golden needle, German Cardiac Society
- 2011 Knight´s cross of merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz), Federal Republic of Germany
- 2012 William Harvey Lecture and Silver Medal, European Society of Cardiology
- 2014 John Ross Jr. Lecture, University of California, San Diego
- 2014 Distinguished leader Award, International Society for Heart Research
- 2017 Order of merit, state North-Rhine Westfalia
- 2017 Carl Ludwig Honour´s Medal, German Cardiac Society
- 2017 Carl Wiggers Award, American Physiological Society
- 2022 Franz Loogen Award, German Cardiac Society
