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Gunther O. Hofmann

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Gunther O. Hofmann (born 22 May 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria) is a German surgeon, biophysicist, and professor.

Early life and education Gunther O. Hofmann was born in 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria. Hofmann attended medical school and earned a Staatsexamen and a doctorate (Dr. med.) from LMU Munich. Thereafter, he moved to the Technical University of Munich, where he graduated in 1984 with a Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor rerum naturalium) in physics.

Career In 1987, Hofmann commenced work as a research fellow at the LMU Klinikum until he started his Habilitation in 1992. During his habilitation, Hofmann did research at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and started to work at LMU Klinikum (hospital of LMU Munich) in the same year. In 1995, he moved to the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik (BG Trauma Hospital) Murnau. Since 2004, Hofmann has been the medical director of Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Director of Hospital for Trauma, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Thuringia.

Research interests His major research fields are Development of implants for osteosynthesis and joint replacement, bone and joint grafting, biomaterials, biomechanics, computer-assisted surgery, infections of bones

Example (2010): Development of a prosthetic hand with microsensors

Selected works 1988 Quantitative Elektromyographie in der Biomechanik (Quantitative electromyography in biomechanics) in: Physik in unserer Zeit (Physics in our time) Volume 19, Issue 5, pages 132–136, 1997 Biologisch abbaubare Knochenimplantate (Biodegradable bone implants) in: Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2/1997 2001 Clinical experience in allogeneic vascularized bone and joint allografting in: Microsurgery Volume 20 Issue 8 p. 375–383, 2000 Microsurgery Special Issue: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Composite Tissue Allotransplantation, Louisville, Kentucky 2003 Therapeutische Optionen bei persistierendem Kniegelenkinfekt in: Trauma und Berufskrankheit Volume 5, Supplement 2, p. 221-224 Springer-Verlag Heidelberg 2004 Infektionen der Knochen und Gelenke (Infections of bones and joints) in: Traumatologie und Orthopädie, Verlag Urban & Fischer München/Jena 2005 Modular Uncemented Tricompartmental Total Knee Arthroplasty in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2005/2 2006 Knochen- und Gelenktransplantation (Bone and joint transplantation) in: Transplantationsmedizin. Ein Leitfaden für den Praktiker p. 241-252 Walter de Gruyter Verlag Berlin 2009 Radiation- and reference base-free navigation procedure for placement of instruments and implants: Application to retrograde drilling of osteochondral lesions of the knee joint in: Computer Aided Surgery 2009 Volume 14 No. 4-6 p. 109-116 (Hofmann a.o.)

Awards 1986 Otto-Götze-Award of the Association of Bavarian Surgeons (in German: Vereinigung der Bayerischen Chirurgen) 1997 Herbert-Stiller-Award of the Physicians Against Animal Experiments (in German: Ärzte gegen Tierversuche) 2008: Science4Life Venture Cup for the development of an optical system for detection of osteoarthritis (Team arthrospec AG)

References

External links biography Dr. Dr. Hofmann at the official website on the BG-Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle Profile of Gunther O. Hofmann at BiomedExperts

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Gunther O. Hofmann

In research: Gunther O. Hofmann appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gunther O. Hofmann in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gunther O. Hofmann is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1957 births, Academic staff of LMU Munich, German biophysicists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Gunther O. Hofmann outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Gunther O. Hofmann (born 22 May 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria) is a German surgeon, biophysicist, and professor.

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