Adolph Giesecke, MD

Professor Emeritus
Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-5460

adolph.giesecke@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Dr. Giesecke was born in Oklahoma but raised and educated in Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, graduating in 1957. After serving as a Flight Surgeon in the US Army, he completed a residency and fellowship in anesthesiology at UT Southwestern. He has devoted his career to improving the care of the traumatized patient. He became a professor in 1970, was named the Jenkins Professor in 1974 and was chairman of the department from 1981 to 1992.

Education

Graduate SchoolUniversity of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (1957)

Research Interests

History of anesthesia
Trauma anesthesia

Publications

Anesthesiology at Southwestern, The First Fifty Years

Giesecke, AH , UTSWMS press , 2001; :1-138

MT Jenkins, A Biography

Giesecke AH , Careers in Anesthesiology , 2000; (Two Posthumous Memoirs):1-118

Honors/Awards

Ashbes Smith Distinguished Alumnus

U TX Medical Branch, Galveston TX (1989)

Fulbright Lecturer and Guest Professor

Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz, Germany (1970)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Medical Association

American Society of Anesthesiologists

Dallas County Medical Society

Texas Medical Association

Texas Society of Anesthesiologists