Curriculum Vitae

Professor Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Burkhart Bromm

Born:  June 30, 1935, in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Married with Dr. med. dent. Thusnelda born Klemm, two children

Academic Education

  • Studies of physics, mathematics and philosophy in Tübin­gen, Hamburg and Kiel:
    • Dr. rer. nat. (physics), Kiel, 1965.
  • Studies of medicine in Hamburg, Kiel and Marburg:
    • Dr. med. Marburg, 1967; approbation Kiel 1972.

Academic Career

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Physiology, University Kiel 1965 – 1969
  • Guest Researcher at Institute for Neurophysiology, Stockholm
    • 1967 and 1971 (Prof. Granit, Prof. Frankenhaeuser).
  • Habilitation in Physiology at University Kiel 1969.
  • Professor C2 Dept. Electrophysiolo­gy, University Bochum 1972.
  • Professor H4 Physiology, Dept. Neurophysiolo­gy, University Hospital Eppendorf     (UKE) Hamburg 1974.
  • Managing Director of the Institute of Physiology, UKE 1977 – 2000.
  • Presidential Board of German Physiological Society 1997 – 2000.
  • President of German Physiological Society 1998.
  • Guest Professor Okasaki, Japan, 1996.
  • Current Position:
    • Professor emeritus since October 2002.

Research

          B. Bromm started in 1965 at Kiel University with investigations on Na-inward        rectification in membranes of nerve and muscle causing repetitive firing, decisive   in cns information uptake and processing. Together with Bernhard           Frankenhaeuser, Stockholm, he published two papers in this field. In Hamburg        he used the narrow contacts with clinical colleagues and investigated methods to         measure pain in man, in particular by related late and ultralate brain           potentials in multilead EEG and MEG (in cooperation with Phillips, Hamburg).    He and his department developed ultra-short laser stimulation in man as well as intracutaneously applied electrical stimuli to quantify analgesic effets.

Publications

  • More than 400 publications in relevant scientific journals (see Publications).
  • Author in Textbooks of Physiology and of Pain Treatment.
  • Editor of Books:
    • „PAIN MEASUREMENT IN MAN“, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1984;
    • „PHYSIOLGIE AKTUELL“, G. Fischer, Stuttgart, Vol. 1 – 3 (1984 – 1986).
    • „PAIN AND THE BRAIN; FROM NOCICEPTION TO COGNITION“ (with J. Desmedt), Raven Press, New York, 1995.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the EEG Journal 1991 – 2000.
  • Co-Organiser of the 3rd Congr. Europ. Neurosci. Assoc. Hamburg 1983;
  • Co-Organiser of the 5th World Congress on Pain, Hamburg 1987;
  • President of the 88th Congress of the German Physiological Society, 1998;
  • President of the German Pain Congress Hamburg 2000.
  • Member of the Scientific Program Committee of Internat. EEG Congr. Rio 1991,
  • Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the Internat. Congr. of Physiology, St. Petersburg, 1996.
  • Member of the Scientific Program Committee of Internat. EMG/EEG Congr., Lyon 1998.
  • Member of the Jungius Society of Science since 1989;
  • Member of the Akademy of Sciences Hamburg since foundation 2004;
  • Member of National and International Scientific Societies;
  • Invited lecturer on national and international congresses;
  • Consultant reviewer of Brain Res., Exp. Brain Res., Pfügers Ar­ch., Psychophysiology,
  • Physiology and Behaviour, Neuropsychobiology, IEEE, PAIN.
  • The author’s research was permanently supported by the „Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ and by the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie.
  • In 2002 and 2003 Bromm was examiner at the Medical College of Karthoum / Sudan.
  • Honory Membership:
    • Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft (Member IASP)
    • Deutsche Schmerztherapiegesellschaft
  • Prices:
    • Deutscher Schmerzpreis 1998.
  • Foundation of „ Burkhart Bromm Promotionspreis“ aus Spendenkonto UKE.

Being emeritus he still is involved in psycho-physiological questions on pain, attention, and consciousness, but most of all in his strong hobby sailing, crossing the Atlantik with own yachts twice.

Kiel, May 2008