Gerd Heusch
Gerd Heusch
em. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c.
Main research areas
Cardioprotection, regulation of coronary blood flow, coronary microembolization, heart failure, atherosclerosis
Career
| 2023 | Vice president and secretary of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| 2014-2022 | Scientific Director of the West German Heart and Vascular Centre Essen |
| 2013-2016 | Member of the Senate Commission "Fundamental Issues of Clinical Research" of the German Research Foundation |
| 2012 | Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts, since 2018 speaker of the Medical Section |
| 2008-2016 | Member of the Medical Review Board of the German Research Foundation, 2012-2016 its speaker |
| 2002 | Call as Professor of Medicine and Chair of Cardiology at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, rejected after successful negotiations with the University of Essen and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 2000 | Professor of Physiology (Adjunct Series) at the University of South Alabama, Mobile |
| 1999 - 2000 | Visiting Professor at the Department of Physiology of the University of South Alabama, Mobile, with a scholarship from the Volkswagenstiftung |
| 1995 | Specialist for physiology |
| 1991 | Call for the Mayborn Chair in Heart Research at Texas A & M University, College Station, rejected after successful negotiations with the University of Essen and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 1989-2024 | C4 - Professor and Director of the Institute for Pathophysiology, Centre for Internal Medicine, University Hospital Essen |
| 1987 | Call as Director of Thoracic Surgery Research at Loyola University in Chicago, rejected after successful negotiations with the University of Essen and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 1987 - 1989 | Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation |
| 1985 - 1986 | Research Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Diego under Dr. John Ross Jr., with a scholarship from the German Research Foundation |
| 1985 | Habilitation for physiology with the topic: sympathetic heart nerves and myocardial ischemia |
| 1980 - 1987 | Scientific assistant at the Physiological Institute I of the University of Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr. J. Schrader) |
| 1979 - 1980 | Military service as doctor / captain |
| 1980 | Doctorate with the topic: Vegetative noise reactions of normotensives and essential hypertensives after stress, supervised by Prof. Dr. A.W. von Eiff at the Medical University Hospital Bonn |
| 1973 - 1979 | Scholarship from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
| 1978 - 1979 | Practical year at the Medical Policlinic (Prof. Dr. F. Krück), the Department of Cardiac Surgery (Prof. Dr. P. G. Kirchhoff) and the Department of Radiology (Prof. Dr. P. Thurn) of the University of Bonn |
| 1975 - 1979 | Clinical studies of medicine at the University of Bonn |
| 1973 - 1975 | Preclinical studies of medicine at the University of Düsseldorf |
Awards and Honors
| 2023 | Federal cross of merit 1st class, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2023 | Honorary doctorate, Semmelweis University, Budapest |
| 2023 | Naranjan Dhalla award, International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences |
| 2022 | Franz Loogen Award of the German Cardiac Society |
| 2022 | Member Academia Europaea |
| 2017 | Medal of Merit of the International Society for Heart Research / European Section |
| 2017 | Carl Wiggers Award of the American Physiological Society |
| 2017 | Carl Ludwig Honorary Medal of the German Cardiac Society |
| 2017 | Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 2014 | John Ross Jr. Lecture, University of California, San Diego |
| 2014 | Distinguished Leader Award of the International Society for Heart Research |
| 2012 | 1st Lecture of the University Heart Centre Freiburg / Bad Krozingen |
| 2012 | Hans and Gertie Fischer Award of the Rhine-Westphalian Society for Internal Medicine |
| 2012 | William Harvey Lecture and Silver Medal of the European Society of Cardiology |
| 2011 | Federal Cross of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2011 | Golden Honorary Needle of the German Cardiac Society |
| 2010 | Hans-Peter Krayenbühl Award of the International Academy of Cardiology |
| 2009 | Cardiovascular Lecture of the German Physiological Society, Giessen |
| 2008 | Greats of Cardiology Award 2008 of the Cardiovascular Centre of the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg |
| 2006 | Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP) |
| 2006 | Honorary professorship at Tangshan Medical College, China |
| 2005 | Ernst von Leyden Medal of the Charité, Berlin |
| 2004 | Paul Morawitz Award of the German Cardiac Society |
| 2003 | Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecture of the International Society for Heart Research |
| 2002 | Silver Medal und Basic Science Lecture of the European Society of Cardiology |
| 2000 | Honorary doctorate by the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy |
| 1998 | Fritz Acker Award of the German Cardiac Society |
| 1997 | Wulf Vater Research Award on Dihydropyridines of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 1986 | Young Investigators Travel Award, Council of Basic Science, American Heart Association |
| 1985 | Edens Award of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 1972 | Gold Medal of the International Competition for Classical Culture, San Remo (Latein) |
Memberships in professional societies
| German Cardiac Society |
| German Herzstiftung |
| Fellow: American Physiological Society / Cardiovascular Section (FCVS), American Heart Association Council of Cardiovascular Basic Science, American College of Cardiology (FACC), European Society of Cardiology (FESC), International Society for Heart Research (FISHR), International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences |
