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Felix Unger

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This article is about the Austrian heart surgeon. For the fictional character Felix Ungar, see The Odd Couple (play).
Felix Unger, speaking at the Alma Mater Europaea graduation ceremony March 12, 2013.

Felix Unger (born 2 March 1946 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is a heart specialist who served as the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for three decades.[1] He is the president of Alma Mater Europaea.[2] In 1986, he performed Europe's first staged artificial heart transplantation - a temporary solution used until a natural donor heart becomes available.[3][4] Europe's first total artificial heart transplant was led by Bjarne Semb in 1985.[3][5]


Life

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Felix Unger, 2015.

Unger studied medicine at University of Vienna, graduating in 1971. After graduation, he practiced at University Clinic for Cardiology in Vienna (1971, 1972) and at the local University Surgical Clinic (1972–1977) and in 1975 as a researcher in the field of Cardiovascular medicine in Houston, Cleveland and Salt Lake City in USA. In the year of 1978, he received his Ph.D, became Associate Professor (and later Full Surgical Professor). In Salt Lake City, he invented Ellipsoidheart,[6] later used by Unger for his 1986 artificial heart transplant procedure. In 1990 he founded the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, together with Kardinal König and Professor Lobkowicz.[7] From 1985 to 2011 he was the leader of the University Clinic for cardiac surgery in Salzburg.[8] From 2001, he has been the president of the European Institute of Health. Prof. Unger is a member of a number of academies of science: a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Latvia, Slovenia and Serbia; a regular member of the German Leopoldina, Slovakia and the New York Academy of Sciences; and the world and the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.[9]

Awards

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Honorary professor:

  • 2002 in Marburg
  • 2012 in St. Petersburg

Honorary doctorates:

  • 1994 in Budapest, Timișoara and Tokyo,
  • 2003 in Riga
  • 2007 in Belgrade
  • 2009 in Athens
  • 2010 in Tbilisi.[9]
  • 2012 in St. Petersburg
  • 2013 in Arad and Cluj-Napoca
  • 2014 in Tirana
  • 2016 in Samara[11]

References

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  1. ^ "News | European Academy of Sciences and Arts". www.euro-acad.eu. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  2. ^ "Felix Unger – Arts Investment Forum Home". www.artsinvestmentforum.org. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
  3. ^ a b Unger, Felix (July 1986). "Review article : Current status and use of artificial hearts and circulatory assist devices". Perfusion. 1 (3): 155–163. doi:10.1177/026765918600100302. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  4. ^ "New Artificial Heart is Tried", United Press International in The New York Times, December 16, 1986.
  5. ^ Kvitting, John‐Peder Escobar; Koul, Bansi; Geiran, Odd R. (July 2022). "Bjarne K. H. Semb: The contriver of the first implantation of a total artificial heart in Europe". Artificial Organs. 46 (7): 1221–1226. doi:10.1111/aor.14252. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  6. ^ Unger, F. (1979). "The Ellipsoidheart in Total Artificial Heart Replacement". Assisted Circulation. Springer: 353–371. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-67268-2_37. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  7. ^ "European Academy of Sciences and Arts". uia.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  8. ^ "Unger, Felix". Club of Rome. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  9. ^ a b c "Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts". Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2013-07-05.
  10. ^ "President of the Slovak Republic - Medal of the president of the Slovak republic". archiv.prezident.sk. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  11. ^ "Unger Feliks". www.sanu.ac.rs. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
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