Prof. Dr. Johannes Joseph van Rood (1926-2017)

Prof. Dr. Johannes Joseph van Rood (1926‐2017)

Jon was born on April 7, 1926 in Scheveningen, a town situated on the coast of the Netherlands. At the end of the Second World War, he began his medical studies at Leiden University. After finishing these, Jon was active as a ‘house doctor’, and visited many of his patients in the country areas. He considered this as one of the best medical learning experiences of his early career, as he was co...

Prof. Dr. Joseph Sebrechts: "primus inter pares".

“Bruges possesses many treasures of art from previous centuries, but the living treasure of Bruges is certainly Professor Sebrechts” (). With these words, Queen Elisabeth honoured the surgeon with whom she had closely worked with the Belgian Red Cross (Fig. 1). A few weeks later, on Easter morning, March 28 1948, Joseph Sebrechts passed away due to bleeding oesophageal varicose veins, as a cons...

In tribute: Prof. Dr. Joseph Vincent De Sa, Bombay, India.

Prof. Dr. Joseph Vincent De Sa, whom we called Prof. Joe De Sa, was born on August 21,1915, in Bombay, India, where he also died on November 3, 1989 (15 years ago). To us within the international community of neurootologists and to all his friends, students , and contemporaneous ear, nose, and throat CENT) specialists in India, he was a very great communicator in the fields of both otology and ...

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In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Hanns Kreisel (1931-2017).