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Hartmut P. H. Neumann, M.D.,
Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Neumann completed his medical degree and thesis at the University of Bonn and the University of Heidelberg, completing his Germany medical degree of Privatdozent Dr. med. He holds multiple specializations, with degree in General Medicine, Pathology, and Internal Medicine, and subspecialties with degrees in Nephrology and Endocrinology.
Until 1983 he worked at the Institute of Pathology, City Hospital, Ludwigshafen (Rheinland). Since 1983 he has been at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg (Breisgau), Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension.
His primary research project there is on inherited diseases affecting the kidney, and inheritance of hypertension.
Since 1989 he has built up one of the largest studies on von Hippel-Lindau syndrome in the world in the last decade, consisting of 120 patients with VHL. His publications have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Gastroenterology, the journals of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, the Journal for Neurosurgery, and others. He has presented papers at the congress of the American Society of Nephrology, the International Congress of Nephrology, the International Congress of Human Genetics, and the Congresses of the German Societies of Endocrinology and of Nephrology.
He has lectured on von Hippel-Lindau disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Columbia University, New York; Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; University of California, San Diego; Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia; Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore; the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and at the VHL Family Alliance meeting in Kansas City in April.
He organized and co-chaired the First International Symposium on VHL in Freiburg in May 1994. His tireless efforts have helped to bring a new level of attention to VHL throughout the world.
Dr. Neumann was recently awarded the Franz Volhard prize for outstanding contribution to the field of Nephrology by the Society of Nephrology (Gesellschaft für Nephrologie) of the German-speaking countries, for his work on von Hippel-Lindau disease and inherited hypertension. In his speech to the Society, he mentioned the work of "der großartigen VHL Family Alliance, einer sehr aktiven Familieninitiative" (the magnificent VHL Family Alliance, a very active family initiative) in locating and informing families with VHL.
Originally published in the December 1994 issue of VHLFF, 2:4 |
