The Mayo Clinic Alumni Association German Speaking Chapter held its 21st annual meeting in June in Göttingen, Germany. The meetings were held in the Alte Mensa, a renovated lecture hall at Göttingen University. The meeting’s theme was “Application of Light in Medicine and Research.” Thirty participants, including 15 Mayo Clinic alumni, attended the meeting.

Speakers included:

• Kajetan von Eckardstein, M.D. (NS ’08), Department of Neurological Surgery, Göttingen University; meeting host
• Thomas Gerber, M.D., Ph.D. (CV ’93, I ’96, CV ’99, CV-IC ’00), Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic in Rochester; editor-in-chief, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
• Hermann von Lilienfeld-Toal, M.D., Ph.D. (MMED ’77), internal medicine, gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, Gelnhausen, Germany
• Simona Nistor-Grahl, M.D., Ph.D. (ONC ’02), director, SG Consulting, hematology-oncology, Darmstadt, Germany
• Silvio Rizzoli, Ph.D., director, Institute for Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, Göttingen University
• Bawarjan Schatlo, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurological Surgery, Göttingen University
• Jörn Peter Sieb, M.D., Ph.D. (N ’93), director, Department of Neurology, Helios Kliniken Stralsund, Germany
• Burkhard Wippermann, M.D., Ph.D. (BIOM ’87), director, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Helios Kliniken Hildesheim, Germany; and member, Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Board of Directors
• Katrin Wacker, M.D. (OPH ’16, resident, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

 

After the scientific program, chapter members went on a guided tour of the historic observatory of celebrated mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and tour of the documenta 14 art exhibit in Kassel — a contemporary art exhibit that occurs every five years in Kassel and is limited to 100 days of exhibition