Olivier Ameisen

Olivier Ameisen ( born June 25, 1953 in Paris, † July 18, 2013 ) was a French cardiologist and author.

Career

At the age of 16 years ant started in 1969 to study medicine at the Hôpital Cochin, the teaching hospital of the University of Paris. After graduating in 1978 he worked as an assistant doctor in Nephrology of the Hospital Saint- Cloud. Following this, he made the cardiology to his field, moved to New York and had in 1983 a position as a research assistant in the cardiology department of the New York Hospital - Cornell University Medical College held (since 1998 NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College). Later he became professor of medicine at Cornell University and a specialist at the New York Hospital. In 1994, he also opened a private practice in Manhattan, New York. As part of the increasingly strong alcohol dependence introduced ants in 1997, his work as a doctor in full in order to devote himself to the treatment of his own disease. After numerous unsuccessful treatment attempts, he succeeded by its own account, his alcoholism using the muscle relaxant baclofen, which he had prescribed for a self-experiment as an off -label use yourself to completely overcome. Ants until his death held a guest professorship at the State University of New York.

In 2005 published a report about the ants examined inhibitory effects of baclofen in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism. The worked-up in a popular scientific work positive experiences are controversial and have not yet been examined in controlled clinical trials.

He lived in New York and Paris.

Works

• The end of my addiction (2009), from the Frz. by Ursel Shepherd. ISBN 978-3-88897-585-1 - Le dernier verre (2008)