Head of Abdominal- and Minimal-Invasive Surgery
Department of Surgery, Bergarbeiter Krankenhaus Schneeberg
Total years of experience :25 years, 11 Months
o Establishment Center of Minimal-Invasive Surgery (oncological and non oncological surgery of upper GI, colo-rectal, hepato-biliary, pancreas, endocrine, hernia)
o High volume center of Minimal-Invasive Surgery (oncological and non oncological surgery of upper GI, colo-rectal, hepato-biliary, pancreas, endocrine, hernia).
o Establishment of Bariatric Surgery of excellence.
o Establishment of bariatric high volume center (more than 400 procedures/year).
o Chairman Oncological Board Munich South
o First professorship of Bariatric Surgery in Germany.
o Establishment of the first independent Division of Bariatric Surgery in Germany.
o Establishment of bariatric high volume center (more than 400 procedures/year).
o Establishment bariatric program in adolescent.
o Establishment of all bariatric procedures, incl. revisional surgery and plastic reconstruction.
o Establishment of bariatric surgery as a treatment of type 2 diabetes.
o Development and implementation of an interdisciplinary/intersectoral „Clinical Pathway“for bariatric surgery, to improve process and result quality.
o Establishment of an interdisciplinary outpatient clinic for surgical and conservative obesity therapy (more than 750 patients/year).
o Approval as the first Center of surgical and conservative obesity treatment in adult and adolescent in Saxonia, Germany.
o International education and reference center for bariatric surgery in cooperation with Olympus.
o Establishment of an excellence educational program in bariatric surgery in cooperation with European Surgical Institute.
o Realisation of clinical studies in bariatric surgery with an overall volume of 1, 8 million Euro (BMfBF)
o Conducting first international symposium „Perioperative Management in Metabolic Surgery“
o More than 30 publications in scientific journals and books.
o Establishment nutrition support team Mannheim, clinical nutrition at University Hospital Mannheim and Home Care.
o Establishment of a bariatric high volume center.
o Extension of the minimal invasive surgery at the surgical department (more than 800 procedures upper GI, colo-rectal, hernioplasty).
o 2002 Facharzt General Surgery
o 2006 Habilitation
o 2006 Dr. Werner Fekl award
o 2008 USA travel grant of the German Surgical Society
o 2009 professorship surgery
o Assignment W2 professorship bariatric surgery at Charite Berlin
o Appointment W2 professorship bariatric surgery at University Leipzig
Doctor of medicine
A-Levels