Biography

Klaus Kayser, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Epidemiology, Dr. rer.nat., Dr. med, Dr. honoris causae mult. (Ioannina, Iassi, Yerevan) Graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Physics (1965), The University of Heidelberg, Medical School (1975), Training in Epidemiology (Righshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark (1975), diagnostic pathology (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA (1981), PhD in physics (1970), MD (1975), Specialized in Pathology (1982), in Medical Informatics (1984), and in Molecular Pathology (2002). Certificate of Appreciation, United States Army, MEDDAC, Heidelberg, 2001.

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Research Interest

Former faculty member of the Heidelberg and Berlin University (Charite Berlin, until today), Head of the Institute of Pathology, Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg (University of Heidelberg, until 2005). Pioneer in electronic medical communication (telemedicine and electronic scientific publication), research on image analysis, lectins, structural entropy, and lung cancer. Founder and editor in chief of the peer reviewed open access journal diagnosticpathology.org, and of diagnosticpathology.eu. Author of several textbooks (Height and Weight in Human Beings (1987), Atlas of Bronchoscopy (1990), Analytical Lung Pathology (1992), Natural and Synthetic Mineral Fibers affecting Man (1994), Telepathology (1999), Virtual Microscopy (2006). In German: Medizin und Umwelt (1996, Medicine and Environment), Krebs – Wissen, was stimmt (2005, Cancer – correct knowledge). Essays and fictions (in German: Zeitgedanken und Spiegeldenken (2000, thoughts on time and thinking in a mirrow), Der Tod eines Körperspenders (2005, the death of a body donator), Terror im T-team (2011, terror in the t-team) (decorated with the first price of the Bundesverband Deutscher Schriftsteller-Ärzte (German Medical Writer Association), Restrisiko oder die heiligen Kühe der Nation (2013, unavoidable risk or the holy cows of our nation), Die Wunderlichen Erzählungen des Jupp Kiepenlad (2014, short stories, the whimsical narrations of Jupp Kiepenlad), Erlebtes Erleben (2015, poems, relived relive).