- Hans-Joachim Denecke Award
- Horst Scheunemann Medal
- Kurt Schürmann Lecture
- Former Laureates of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery
Hans-Joachim Denecke Award
Preamble
The German Society of Skull Base Surgery confers the Hans-Joachim Denecke Award, which carries prize money of 1,500 euros, on an annual basis.
Hans-Joachim Denecke, who was born in Prenzlau in Germany’s Uckermark region on 2 October 1911 and died in Heidelberg on 28 April 1990, was one of the truly great surgeons in the field of otorhinolaryngology. Denecke studied at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg before going to Berlin and then Greifswald, where he obtained his medical doctorate in 1936. After spells training in pathology and surgery he relocated to Marburg where, under Walther Uffenorde, he focused on surgery of the paranasal sinuses as his main field of interest; from 1943, based in Heidelberg under Alfred Seiffert, he devoted itself to the full range of procedures in operative otorhinolaryngology. After the end of the war in 1945, Denecke was the first lecturer to obtain his post-doctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) from the newly reopened Heidelberg Medical Faculty. In 1950 Denecke was appointed a supernumary professor. As early as 1947, he was entrusted with the editing of the ENT periodical Zentralblatt für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde, published by the Springer group in Heidelberg. As co-editor, he had by the time of his death in 1990 compiled over 100 volumes on all aspects of ear, nose and throat medicine and adjoining disciplines. In 1948 he was, on the strength of his considerable surgical experience, commissioned by the surgeons Rudolf Zenker and Nicola Guleke to write the section entitled "Allgemeinen und speziellen chirurgischen Operationslehre" (“General and Specific Surgical Theory”) as part of the work "Die oto-rhino-laryngologischen Operationen" (“Otorhinolaryngological Surgery”). A new edition, published in several different volumes, came out in 1980; volume 1, "Die Operationen an der Nase und im Nasopharynx" (“Surgery of the Nose and Nasopharynx”) and volume 3, "Die oto-rhino-laryngologischen Operationen im Mund- und Halsbereich" (“Otorhinolaryngological Surgery of the Oral and Neck Region”) were published during his lifetime; the preparation of the bulk of the volumes entitled "Operationen an den Nasennebenhöhlen und der angrenzenden Schädelbasis" (“Surgery of the Paranasal Sinuses and the Adjacent Skull Base”) and "Operationen im Ohrbereich" (“Surgery of the Ear Region”) was his main legacy. 1964 saw the publication, in collaboration with R. Meyer, of the volume "Die plastischen Operationen am Kopf und Hals" (“Plastic Surgery of the Head and Neck”). Denecke had particularly extensive experience in the surgery of the lateral skull base, which he was able to pass on to fellow professionals including neurosurgeons – most notably surgery of extensive tumours of the temporal bone and the jugular glomus. Numerous honorary memberships in professional societies both in Germany and elsewhere recognize his extensive surgical experience, his comprehensive knowledge of the literature and his pioneering work in skull base surgery.
The following statutes apply to the conferring of the Hans-Joachim Denecke Award:
1. The Hans-Joachim Denecke Award is conferred for an outstanding piece of work (which has not yet received any awards) in the field of skull base surgery. This work must not have been concurrently submitted for a different award.
2. A piece of work shall be evaluated by a panel consisting of three elected members of the Society acting as award judges. They shall, from the entries submitted, select those they deem worthy of this honour. If there is only one entry, they have to rule on whether or not it is deserving of the award.
3. All members of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery (the Society) may enter for the award.
4. Three copies (reprints or print-ready manuscripts in either English or German) of the work are to be submitted to the Society’s General Secretary by no later than 15 July.
5. The decision of the adjudicating panel shall be final. It shall be communicated in writing to the Society’s President, accompanied by the submitted entries. The award shall be conferred on the occasion of the Society’s annual conference. The award may, in exceptional cases, be shared.
6. In cases of doubt, the most senior member of the adjudicating panel shall have the casting vote. In such cases, he/she shall notify the General Secretary regarding the panel’s final vote.
7. A copy of the winning entry shall remain with the Society’s General Office for documentation purposes. Other work submitted shall be returned to the authors concerned.
8. If an entrant contravenes the statues by the manner in which his/her work is submitted, this work shall not be eligible for consideration.
Former laureates:
2001 R. Heermann, Hannover, Germany
2002 G. Bachmann, Tromsø, Norway
2003 B. Schick, Homburg / Saar, Germany
2004 K. Bumm, Erlangen, Germany
2005 Bockmühl, Fulda, Germany
2006 M. Diensthuber, Hannover, Germany
2007 M.C. Metzger, Freiburg, Germany
2008 PD Dr. Alireza Gharabaghi
Horst Scheunemann Medal
Preamble
The German Society of Skull Base Surgery awards a medal, named in honour of Horst Scheunemann, for special services to the promotion of scientific skull base surgery.
Horst Scheunemann, who was born in Berlin on 21 May 1927 and died in Mainz on 15 October 1990, was one of the truly great oral and maxillofacial surgeons. Scheunemann’s academic career was crucially influenced by scientific work he carried out at the University of Hamburg’s Pharmacological Institute, and his professional career was given direction by his teacher Alfred Rehrmann, under whom he began his advanced training as a specialist oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Düsseldorf University’s Westdeutsche Kieferklinik (West German Jaw Clinic) in 1954 and where he obtained his Habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) in 1964 with a thesis on the chemotherapy of malignant tumours of the maxillofacial region. In 1969 he was appointed to the Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, a post to which he remained loyal despite having had the honour of being called to a position at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and – a particularly prestigious accolade – to the University of Düsseldorf, where he would have succeeded his teacher Alfred Rehrmann. On the strength of his seminal and award-winning work on the experimental and clinical basis of intra-arterial chemotherapy of malignant tumours in the maxillofacial region, he can truly be described as a chemotherapy pioneer in his field, an achievement which received international recognition in 1968 by virtue of his election as a corresponding member of the American Association of Head and Neck Surgeons. As a founding member of the European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, he was instrumental in the international development of his discipline. His clinical work was, throughout, marked by his strong support for technical advances and in particular by the notion of interdisciplinary collaboration with adjoining medical fields. He was among the founding members of the Skull Base Study Group, which later gave rise to the German Society of Skull Base Surgery.
The following statutes apply to the awarding of the Horst Scheunemann Medal:
1. The Horst Scheunemann Medal is awarded for special services in the promotion of scientific skull base surgery.
2. The medal is conferred on individuals who are not members of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery (the Society) and who do not belong to a medical discipline represented within the Society.
3. All members of the Society are eligible for nomination.
4. The Society’s Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Council shall decide on the awarding of the Horst Scheunemann Medal by a unanimous vote.
Former laureates:
2001 S. Storz (of Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, Tuttlingen)
2005 M. Kaschke (of Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen)
Kurt Schürmann Lecture
Preamble
The German Society of Skull Base Surgery invites internationally pioneering scientists to give a lecture named in honour of Kurt Schürmann.
Kurt Schürmann was born in Bochum on 19 February 1920. In 1939 he began his medical studies in Leipzig. After continuing his training in Marburg, Heidelberg and Innsbruck, he graduated from the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria as a Doktor der gesamten Heilkunde (equivalent to M.D.) in 1945. He underwent his surgical and neurosurgical training at the then Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum-Langendreer (a hospital operated by the German Federal Miners’ Insurance Institution), concurrently engaging in scientific activities in the Max Planck Institute there. After becoming certified as a specialist in surgery in 1951, he obtained his Habilitation (post-doctoral lecturing qualification) in surgery and neurosurgery in 1955 and, in the same year, became Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mainz Surgical Teaching Hospital. His innovative concept of clinical practice was lauded by numerous national and international professional associations which awarded him either corresponding or honorary membership. By the time he was granted emeritus status in 1988, he had succeeded in establishing an excellent neurosurgical school whose graduates filled a large number of chairs in neurosurgery. His great importance for the advancement of neurosurgery was, at the time he was awarded emeritus status, honoured by recognition including the awarding of the Fedor Krause Medal of the German Neurosurgical Society and the Walter Poppelreuter Gold Medal by the Bund der Hirnverletzten Deutschland (German Association for the Brain-Damaged).
The following statutes apply to the invitation to give the Kurt Schürmann Lecture:
1. The individual to be invited must have performed special, internationally recognized clinical and academic services in the advancement of skull base surgery. This lecture is generally a mark of recognition of an individual’s outstanding life’s work.
2. All members of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery (the Society) are eligible for nomination.
3. The Society’s Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Council shall decide on the awarding of the Horst Scheunemann Medal by a unanimous vote.
Former laureates:
1999 M.E. Wiegand, Erlangen, Germany
2001 J. Lang, Würzburg, Germany
2003 U. Fisch, Zurich
2005 M. Samii, Hannover, Germany
2007 W. Draf, Hannover, Germany
Former Laureates of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery
Denecke Award
2001 R. Heermann, Hannover, Germany
2002 G. Bachmann, Tromsø, Norway
2003 B. Schick, Homburg / Saar, Germany
2004 K. Bumm, Erlangen, Germany
2005 U. Bockmühl, Fulda, Germany
Scheunemann Award
2001 S. Storz, Karl Storz GmbH & Co.KG, Tuttlingen, Germany
2005 M. Kaschke, Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany
Schürmann Lecture
1999 M.E. Wiegand, Erlangen, Germany
2001 J. Lang, Würzburg, Germany
2003 U. Fisch, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 M. Samii, Hannover, Germany