Hinrich Bitter-Suermann
Hinrich Bitter-Suermann ( born March 10, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German - Canadian transplant surgeon, university teacher and politician.
Life
Bitter-Suermann studied medicine at the Julius -Maximilians -Universität Würzburg, Georg- August University of Göttingen and the Christian -Albrechts- University of Kiel. In 1960 he became a member of the Corps Nassovia and Hannovera. In 1965 he received his doctorate in Göttingen summa cum laude for Dr. med.
Trained in Kiel, Kiruna and Haparanda, he went to Addenbrooke 's Hospital in Cambridge. When Roy Yorke Calne, he dealt with graft tolerance and organ preservation. In 1974 he returned to Sweden and worked at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Göteborg ). The University of Gothenburg and in 1975 graduated summa cum laude, in turn, to the Ph.D. and appointed him the following year for lecturer in transplant surgery.
Supported by the Swedish Cancer Society, he was 1976/77 guest researcher at the Cancer Research Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He then spent five years at the Institute of Pathology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC employed. At the same time, he worked in immunology from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland. In 1977 he became associate professor in 1981 and professor at Georgetown University.
1982 appointed him to the Dalhousie University, Halifax ( Nova Scotia ) to the chair of surgery. In the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre and the IWK Hospital for Children, he became involved in the kidneys, liver and pancreas transplantation. He initiated the Liver Transplant Program as third in Canada for the Atlantic provinces and founded the Liver Transplant Institute for the procurement of funds.
For the electoral district of Chester -St. Margaret's he sat in the Canadian House of Representatives of Nova Scotia from 1998 to 1999 at the 57th General Assembly. In 1998, he represented the Canadian party " Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia " and from 1998 to 1999, the " Nova Scotia New Democratic Party ." In the state elections in 2003, he took up for his constituency also for the New Democratic Party, but was defeated with 36.9 % of the vote narrowly to the candidate of the Progressive Conservatives John Chataway.
After 24 years he returned to Germany. 2007 appointed him to the University of Heidelberg at its Faculty of Medicine in Mannheim as director of the new Interdisciplinary Centre for shunt surgery.