Ina Pichlmayr (born 1932 in

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) is a German

anesthesiologist Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative medicine, perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critica ...

and professor of medicine. She is co-founder of the Rehabilitation Center Ederhof, a special hospital in Iselsberg-Stronach (

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) for the rehabilitation of children and adolescents and their parents before and after organ transplantation.

Life

Ina Pichlmayr studied medicine at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

from 1950 and graduated with a doctorate in 1956. From 1957 to 1958, she initially worked as a medical assistant and then completed her residency at the Department of Anesthesiology at the Surgical University Hospital in Munich from 1959 to 1963. From 1961, Pichlmayr was the first senior physician there. After her habilitation in 1968, she moved to the

Hannover Medical School The Hannover Medical School (, abbreviated to MHH) is a university medical centre founded in 1965 in Hanover, Germany. MHH is part of a regional medical network. History In June 1961, the German Science and Humanities Council recommended that ...

(MHH) in 1971. Here she became professor of anesthesiology in 1972. From 1974 until her retirement in 1997, she was head of the Department of Anesthesiology IV of the Institute of Anesthesiology of the MHH. Together with her husband, the surgeon

Rudolf Pichlmayr Rudolf Pichlmayer (16 May 1932 in Munich, Germany – 29 August 1997 in Acapulco, Mexico) was a German surgeon and head of the Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery Department of the Hannover Medical School. He was one of the leading transplant ...

, she founded the Ederhof, a foundation for the rehabilitation of children and adolescents and their parents before and after organ transplantation. After the death of her husband, she took over its management until 2001. Pichlmayr is the mother of five daughters. In 2010, the mentoring program for young female scientists (''Mentoring-Programm für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen der MHH'') at the MHH was renamed Ina-Pichlmayr-Mentoring (IPM).

Publications (selection)

* with Peter Lehmkuhl: ''EEG-Überwachung des Intensivpatienten''. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 1988, * with Sabine Jeck-Thole: ''EEG-Leitfaden für Anästhesisten''. Thieme, Stuttgart 1990, * with Rudolf Pichlmayr: ''Lebenschance Organtransplantation. Wissenswertes über Durchführung und Probleme der Organtransplantation.'' Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, * with Sabine Jeck-Thole, Ingrid Halbaum: ''Checkliste Anästhesiologie.'' Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1992,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pichlmayr, Ina 1932 births Living people People from Legnica County German anesthesiologists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Women anesthesiologists 20th-century German physicians 20th-century German women physicians 21st-century German physicians 21st-century German women physicians