Alexander Berghaus

{{Short description|German otorhinolaryngologist (born 1952)}}

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|field = Otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, and especially facial plastic surgery

|work_institutions = Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)

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Alexander Berghaus is a German specialist in otorhinolaryngology and a university professor of otorhinolaryngology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).

From 1993 to 2003, he was a director of the department of otorhinolaryngology, face and neck surgery, and professor of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He was dean at the medical faculty there in 1994 and pro-dean from 1996 to 1998. Since 2003 he has been director of the department of otorhinolaryngology at the Medical Campus of the University of Munich and professor of otorhinolaryngology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Berghaus_Alexander_D_01.pdf Alexander Berghaus CV]

Berghaus worked on polyethylene prosthetics for the trachea, ear reconstruction and other uses over his career.{{cite book |editor-last=Staudenmaier |editor-first=Rainer |title=Aesthetics and functionality in ear reconstruction (Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Vol.68) |date=3 May 2010 |publisher=Karger |location=Basel |isbn=978-3805593168 |page=Preface VII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXnSXJAkeNsC&pg=PR7}}{{cite journal|last1=Berghaus|first1=A|title=Porous polyethylene in reconstructive head and neck surgery.|journal=Archives of Otolaryngology|date=March 1985|volume=111|issue=3|pages=154–60|pmid=3977737|doi=10.1001/archotol.1985.00800050048005|url=https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6209/1/6209.pdf|type=Submitted manuscript}}{{cite journal|last1=Braun|first1=T|last2=Hempel|first2=JM|last3=Berghaus|first3=A|title=Developmental disorders of the ear in children and adolescents: conservative and surgical treatment options.|journal=Deutsches Ärzteblatt International|date=7 February 2014|volume=111|issue=6|pages=92–8|doi=10.3238/arztebl.2014.0092|pmid=24622605|pmc=3953996}} He also invented and patented instruments for rhinoplasty that were licensed to Karl Storz GmbH.{{cite journal|last1=Berghaus|first1=A|title=New instruments for rhinoplasty: operating mirror and alar guiding set.|journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery|date=June 2006|volume=117|issue=7|pages=2224–5|doi=10.1097/01.prs.0000218719.51674.d6|pmid=16772921}}

With G. Rettinger and G. Böhme he authored a book: Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde Hippokrates Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, {{ISBN|3-7773-0944-3}}.

In 2001 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.{{cite web |title=Mitgliederverzeichnis (membership directory) |url=http://www.leopoldina.org/de/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/member/828/ |publisher=Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |accessdate=19 October 2017 |language=de}}