# Gerd Heusch

gerd heusch (born May 20, 1955 in Bonn) is a German physician and physiologist, professor and chair of the Institute for Pathophysiology at the University of Essen Medical School. == Biography == Heusch attended the Medical Schools at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bonn, where he graduated in 1979 and received his MD degree in 1980. Following obligatory military service as medical officer, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Düsseldorf Medical School where he completed his PhD in 1985.