Stefan R. Bornstein

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Full Name	Stefan R. Bornstein
Occupation	Physician
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1961(1961-11-05)
Age	63
Birthplace	Oberstdorf
Country	Germany
Birth City	Bavaria
Horoscope	Scorpio

Stefan R. Bornstein Biography

Stefan R. Bornstein is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on November 5, 1961 in Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany. Bornstein was born in Oberstdorf, Germany, in 1961, and was an infant among four children. His parents were traders in textiles (Stoffversand Bornstein). In the latter part of the 19th century the Bornstein family moved towards America. United States, only to return to Germany in the days before World War I in which Stefan R. Bornstein’s grandfather was awarded in the form of the Iron Cross. In the Nazi regime that ruled Germany, numerous people from the Bornstein family were slandered. Stefan R. Bornstein’s grandfather, Max Bornstein, survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, but passed away just in the aftermath of World War II. Others of his relatives went to England or to the USA. Richard Lindner, an uncle of Bornstein’s, became an acclaimed artist within the US and a pioneer in American Pop-Art. A cousin got married to the Belgian royal family, and became the Princess Lea from Belgium. The diverse family’s background and the traveling required for their textile business exposed Bornstein to various languages and cultures early on. The professor Stefan R. Bornstein has two sons and was married to Monica Ehrhart- Bornstein. known as a renowned neurobiologist and endocrinologist. She died in October of this year. Stefan was married again, and has a daughter from his second marriage.

In addition the Professor Bornstein has published more than 30 textbooks on endocrinology as well as internal medicine (Schettler Greten Thieme, Innere Medizin, Becker: Principles of Endocrinology and Metabolism and many more.) and is the co-author of the work “Evolution, Stress and modern Medicine” (Progressmedia), which was published in 2006. His writings are referenced over 12.000 times. His H-index is 53.

Bornstein’s scientific focus lies on the adrenal gland as on organ of stress, stem cell research and advances in islet cell transplantation as a therapy for diabetes. This is why, presently, Dresden is the only active German center of this treatment. Since 2011 Bornstein has been spokesman for the research group KFO 252 of the German Science Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) and one of the coordinators of the Paul-Langerhans-Institute Dresden. Since 2012, he has been scientific secretary of the DFG Transregio 127. Main research areas are: endocrinology and internal medicine (e.g. adrenal gland, stress, and stem cell research), diabetes, transplant medicine (e.g. new strategies to improve diabetes treatment), public healthcare and preventive medicine (prevention of diabetes)

From 2001 until 2004 Bornstein was a C3-Professor, as assistant director in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Dusseldorf. From 2000 to 2002 he was scientific coordinator of a NIH-state-of- the-science-conference on adrenal tumors. In 2002, he received the position of director for Internal Medicine within the University of Adelaide and the Bo Schembechler Chair of Medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US, which did not happen. Since 2004, he’s held a C4-Professorship as well as a directorship for the Department for Internal Medicine in Dresden. In addition, he was appointed a member of the Max Planck Graduate School in 2004 and is the founder and chairman of the board of excellence of Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD). In 2008, he was made an honorary professor at the University of Miami. Along together with Julio Licinio he founded the German Australian Institute of Translational Medicine (GAITM) in 2009. Since 2011, he’s been advisor at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra as well as a director of the John Curtin Medical Research Foundation. He is as an honorary faculty member at Hong Kong University since 2012 as well as a honorary professor for King’s College London since 2013.

Stefan R. Bornstein Net Worth

Stefan R. Bornstein is one of the richest Physician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stefan R. Bornstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Stefan R. Bornstein (November 5 1961 ) in Oberstdorf, Germany) is the director of the Centre for Internal Medicine and the Medical Clinic and Policlinic III at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of the Technical University of Dresden as also the medical faculty’s vice-dean for international development and affairs, and is a part of the supervision board for the University Hospital of Dresden. In addition, he is the chair and honorary consultant for endocrinology and diabetes within King’s College London. Previously, Bornstein worked as assistant director and professor of endocrinology at the University Hospital of Dusseldorf, as unit chief at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and held the Heisenberg-scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Bornstein took his German Abitur at the Gertrud-von-le-Fort-Gymnasium in Oberstdorf as class winner and studied medicine at the University of Ulm/Germany from 1982 to 1988. He completed his practicum during his time at the University of Miami, US and was supervised by Maxwell McKenzie. In addition to the German state exam, he has his American Medical Licence ECFMG as along with the British licence to practice medicine GMC-UK. He completed his residency in Ulm’s University Hospital Ulm under Ernst-Friedrich Pfeiffer as well as Dr. Guido Adler during which he did a short research fellowship in the Biochemistry Department at the South West Medical Center, University of Texas, US together alongside Michael Waterman. In 1994, he received an award in Completion of Training in internal medicine, and in 1996 he was awarded the sub-specialization in Endocrinology and Diabetology. From 1994 to 1997 , he was an assistant professor in the Department for Internal Medicine at the University of Leipzig with Werner Scherbaum. In 1995, he earned his doctorate from the state of Leipzig in collaboration in conjunction with IZKF in the University of Leipzig. From 1996 to 1997 and 1998 to 1999 he held the Heisenberg-scholarship of the German Science Association; later he became unit chief under Prof. George P. Chrousos at the National Institutes of Health.

Bornstein is chief of the medical clinic and policlinic III (Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III) at the university hospital Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden, which is a major centre of treatment and research of diabetes mellitus type I and type II in Europe as well as its sequelae, like the diabetic foot syndrome, heart and blood vessel diseases and diabetic nephropathy. A major topic is creating individual treatment strategies to prevent the increase in diabetes prevalence. That is why in 2009 they created the first professorship for diabetes prevention in Germany. In 2008 started the only currently active program of islet transplantation in Germany. This treatment is a great benefit for patients with diabetes type I with great deviations in their glucose blood levels. Recent research includes a bioreactor of insulin-producing cells in a small implantable chamber which offers an immunoisolation, making the implantation possible without immune suppressive therapy.

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