50 years LMU Klinikum Großhadern

Enlarge

For 50 years, the LMU Klinikum Großhadern has been a place of outstanding medicine, excellent research and teaching as well as a defining building for the district. The second medical site of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München was a pioneering building when it opened - in medical, architectural and urban planning terms. The first patient was admitted to the new Grosshadern University Hospital in September 1974. At the open day on Saturday, September 14, from 10 am to 4 pm, anyone interested can get to know Bavaria's largest university hospital and its staff better. The program includes guided tours, hands-on activities, information stands, exhibitions, lectures and much more.

At the opening event with Bavaria's Minister of Science Markus Blume, DFB co-coach Sandro Wagner, heart transplant patient Tamara Schwab and ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, Prof. Markus M. Lerch, Medical Director, sets the tone: "At our Open Day, we want to show how we at LMU Hospital are working with the best minds, new structures and innovative projects to set the course for an ever-improving medical future." Topics to be discussed include space medicine, sport and health, organ donation and transplantation medicine. It starts at 10 a.m. in lecture hall 6.

The open day will focus on a variety of medical topics: These include emergency simulations in the operating room, resuscitation exercises, virtual reality in pulmonary medicine and a walk-in lung model, a simulation of a children's heart operation, suturing wounds under the operating microscope and a teddy bear hospital. There will also be guided tours of the cardiac catheterization laboratory, an intensive care unit, radiology, nuclear medicine and the children's palliative care center.

The information stands along the visitor route and the other activity areas present a broad medical spectrum of the LMU Klinikum, for example nutritional medicine, pediatric surgery, pulmonary medicine and tropical medicine. Visitors can also take a look behind the scenes of hospital operations and get to know areas such as the reprocessing unit for medical products, hospital hygiene and the pharmacy. By the way: Palliative medicine at the LMU Clinic is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year - the clinic team is looking forward to engaging in dialog with interested parties at the open day.

There will also be a broad program of lectures in three lecture halls at the same time, as well as exhibitions and guided tours. Information on training and career opportunities as well as further education and training at the LMU Klinikum will also be a major topic. The program also includes competitions with attractive prizes (the main prize is a smartwatch with ECG function), a varied children's program, hospital clowns, a basketball challenge with FC Bayern, goal wall shooting and a beer garden with food trucks and a carousel - more than 90 offers in total.

What to do when the world keeps turning?

The topic of dizziness has a current relevance - not only because of the merry-go-round in front of the LMU Klinikum Großhadern and the big rides at the upcoming Oktoberfest. Großhadern is home to one of Europe's largest centers for clinical care and research into dizziness and balance disorders, treating over 4,000 patients a year. On September 14, Prof. Dr. Andreas Zwergal, head of the German Dizziness and Balance Center (DSGZ), and other experts will be available to answer questions from interested parties and provide insights into their work and premises. The international "Balance Awareness Week", which will take place from September 15 with numerous digital information formats on the topic of dizziness, will also draw attention to the topic of dizziness after the open day.

Insights into the future of LMU Klinikum Großhadern

The largest current construction site on the Großhadern campus is the children's hospital "Das Neue Hauner". Visitors to the open day can see a huge excavation pit, cranes and barriers. In the exhibition on the past, present and future of Großhadern, the plans become more concrete - and more vivid. Particularly impressive: the window front at the eastern end of the visitor street offers a visual leap in time into the next decade; here visitors can experience the view as it will be in around ten years' time. With the Oncology Center, the Cardiopulmonary Vascular Center and the Diagnostic Center, three new buildings are in the pipeline. The exhibition area also provides information on the renovation of the building and other new buildings that will make the Grosshadern Campus fit for the future and for the constantly growing demands on patient care and research. Visitors will also be interested in taking a look back - sketches from the construction period and films about the preparations for the opening of the Großhadern Clinic 50 years ago and the opening of the LMU Klinikum Innenstadt in 2021.

The best hospital in the world visits Großhadern

The Mayo Clinic from Rochester, Minnesota (USA), which is regularly listed as the world's best hospital in the US magazine Newsweek, will also be represented in Großhadern on September 14 - albeit at a different event. From Thursday to Saturday, September 12 to 14, an international medical congress will take place in the lecture hall wing in Grosshadern. Experts from the Mayo Clinic will be discussing new developments in cancer medicine in general and in kidney and lung medicine in particular with colleagues from LMU Klinikum. The event is open exclusively to medical professionals and is therefore not part of the Visitors' Day.

Program and information on the Open Day