Famous Composers – Diseases Reloaded

Andreas Otte, MD, is a board-certified specialist in Nuclear Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Division of Medical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering and Computer Science, Offenburg University, Germany. Prof. Otte received his graduate and postgraduate medical education at the University Hospitals Freiburg, Germany, and Basle, Switzerland, and at the Paul Scherrer Research Institute in Villigen, Switzerland. Thereafter he held various leading positions in clinical research with Pfizer in Freiburg, Germany (International Medical Research, Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals) and at the University Hospital Freiburg. From 2002 to 2009, he was a Visiting Professor of Nuclear Medicine in the Medical Faculty of the University of Ghent in Belgium. He took up his present position in 2010. Andreas Otte is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles and the author or editor/co-editor of a number of books, including the Springer trilogyPET and SPECT in Neurology, PET and SPECT in Psychiatry, and PET and SPECT of Neurobiological Systems or the monograph Functional Neuroimaging in Whiplash Injury. His research focus is on neurosciences including functional neuroimaging, brain-machine interfaces, and intelligent neuroprosthetics. He is member of the Offenburg University research institutes Campus Research & Transfer and the Peter Osypka Institute of Medical Engineering. Awarded a series of international scientific prizes, he was nominated Editor of the Board of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine (1998–2003), the Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine (since 2003), Archiv für Kriminologie [Archives of Criminology] (since 2020), and Prosthesis (since 2020).  In addition, Andreas Otte is also a guitarist and winner of various music and composition competitions as well as a former student of Professor Andreas Higi (University of Music Trossingen). He published a series of musicological essays, books on medical history, and the famous 6th edition of "Kerners Krankheiten großer Musiker." The Joachim Trekel Music Publishing House Hamburg has released some of his works composed for guitar solo, guitar with various instruments as well as for guitar and orchestra.

• Introductory to the Topic.- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).- Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757).- Nicolò Paganini (1782–1840).- Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909).- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937).- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959).- Robert Schumann (1810-1856).