Nib soehendra biography for kids
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One of the most innovative and influential endoscopists in ERCP, Dr Nib Soehendra
“No one assisted me. I did my first ERCP in the x-ray room I got from the radiologist when they finished their work and they gave me the key to the room. No nurse … just me and the patient. I had to insert the scope and then, to make the first fluoroscopy and picture, I had to run to the other side of the room.” &#; Dr Nib Soehendra in conversation with Dr Peter Cotton
Dr Nib Soehendra is many things in the ERCP world: a pioneer, an inventor, a collaborator and an educator. He worked closely with Don Wilson on endoscopy products including the Soehendra Universal Catheter and the Cook Soehendra Lithotriptor. His inventions fill our catalogues and the closets of our endoscopy rooms.
Dr Soehendra was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. He attended the University Medical Hospital of Hamburg and graduated in as a doctor. During his specialist training for surgery he was introduced to gastrosco
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A legend leaves (but not ganska, we hope): Nib Soehendra
Publication types
- Biography
- Editorial
- Historical Article
- Portrait
MeSH terms
- Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / history
- General Surgery / history
- Germany
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- Indonesia
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A legend leaves (but not quite, we hope): Nib Soehendra
Nib Soehendra
Both authors confess that this is not an objective scientific piece of work; on the contrary, it is a heavily biased article with all possible violations of conflicts of interest (which we obviously enjoy), because the authors (one of whom is the successor of the subject of interest) have to admit, that the person under discussion has been a very good friend for a number of years, and has been enormously influential in the areas where we were deeply involved.
Nib Soehendra left his clinical position of Chief of Endoscopy at Hamburg University in the fall of this year; nonetheless hopefully he will still be around in the future to help and guide us with teaching and developing GI endoscopy to meet its further demands and challenges.
His influence on GI endoscopy has been enormous. Gastrointestinal endoscopy has seen a very limited number of pioneers of his class in Eu