Hinrich Bitter-Suermann

Hinrich Bitter-Suermann is a German-Canadian pathologist and professor of surgery who specialized in organ transplantation, born in March 1940. He studied medicine at Wurzburg, Gottingen and Kiel and graduated summa cum laude in Gottingen in 1965. After clinical training in Germany and Sweden he worked from 1971 to 1973 at Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge as a transplant fellow under Sir Roy Calne, where his research dealt with transplantation tolerance induced by spleen grafts in rats. He then worked at Gothenburg, McGill University and Georgetown University, where he became professor in 1981. From 1982 he was professor of surgery and director of the liver transplant program at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where over 24 years he was engaged in kidney, liver and pancreas transplantation and started the program that served Atlantic Canada.