LEADER 04578nam 22005895 450 001 996309143603316 005 20200229105050.0 010 $a3-11-066297-3 024 7 $a10.2478/9783110662979 035 $a(CKB)4100000008166105 035 $a(DE-B1597)522932 035 $a(OCoLC)1100433979 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110662979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6637712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6637712 035 $a(OCoLC)1281981784 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008166105 100 $a20200229h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine $eAsella, Äthiopien /$fDieter Häussinger 210 1$aDüsseldorf : $cdüsseldorf university press, $d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (86 p.) 311 $a3-11-066296-5 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tList of Abbreviations -- $tPreface -- $tThe Origins of the Institute -- $tAsella, Life at the Edge of the Great Rift Valley -- $tBuilding and Furnishing the HITM -- $tResearch Projects -- $tCooperation Projects with Other Institutes and Universities -- $tRecognition from the Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Technology -- $tOther Activities -- $tThe Founding of Arsi University -- $tPerspectives -- $tReferences: Publications of the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine (up to 09/2018) -- $tFurther Information 330 $aIn 2013, the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine (HITM) was officially inaugurated as a branch of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf under the direction of Professor Dieter Häussinger. The HITM serves as a place of scientific medical knowledge transfer, postgraduate medical training, and of conducting scientific projects relating to tropical medicine and infectious diseases. The publication relates the past activities of the institute, its history, and perspectives. Moreover, it permits a look behind the scenes during the construction of the institute in Africa and describes the living conditions and impressions of the staff. Dieter Häussinger, Director of the HITM and the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectious Diseases and Professor of Internal Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, focuses on the areas of clinical and experimental hepatology and gastroenterology, he is committed to the expansion and further development of the field of infectious diseases. He encouraged the certification of his department as a Center of Infectious Diseases, the addition of a tropical medicine and an infectious diseases outpatient clinic, the building of the Liver and Infectious Diseases Center, which houses the only treatment unit in North Rhine-Westphalia for highly infectious patients, and the founding of the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine. 606 $aTropical Medicine, Infection Medicine, Medical Faculty of Adama Science and Technology University, Asella Teaching Hospital, Etiology of Chronic Liver Disease, Chronic Liver Diseases, Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, ESTHER-Initiative 606 $achronic liver diseases 606 $ainfectiology 606 $ainfectious diseases 606 $aresearch in high prevalence country 606 $atropical medicine 606 $aMEDICAL / General$2bisacsh 610 $aTropical Medicine, Infection Medicine, Medical Faculty of Adama Science and Technology University, Asella Teaching Hospital, Etiology of Chronic Liver Disease, Chronic Liver Diseases, Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, ESTHER-Initiative. 615 4$aTropical Medicine, Infection Medicine, Medical Faculty of Adama Science and Technology University, Asella Teaching Hospital, Etiology of Chronic Liver Disease, Chronic Liver Diseases, Ensemble pour une Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitalière En Réseau, ESTHER-Initiative. 615 4$achronic liver diseases. 615 4$ainfectiology. 615 4$ainfectious diseases. 615 4$aresearch in high prevalence country. 615 4$atropical medicine. 615 7$aMEDICAL / General. 700 $aHäussinger$b Dieter, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$092464 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996309143603316 996 $aThe Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine$92559306 997 $aUNISA