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  • University Professor for Thoracic Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn
  • Head of the Lung Cancer Center Bonn/Rhein-Sieg
  • Specialist for Thoracic Surgery

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

TRAINING

1995-2002 Study of human medicine at the Philipps University Marburg
1998-1999 Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
2003 Doctorate:  “A Novel Binding Protein for Fibroblast Growth Factors (FGF-BP2): Cloning, Tumorigenic Activity, Expression Profile and in vitro mRNA Regulation by Serum and Retinoids“
Philipps-University Marburg
Department of Oncology, Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Center, NCI, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA        
2014 Postdoctoral Studies: 

"Inflammatory signal transduction in the pathophysiology of postoperative ileus."

Westphalian Wilhelm University Münster   


PROFESSIONAL CAREER

2002-2008 Research associate at the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn
2003-2008 Research associate of the DFG Clinical Research Unit KFO115 "Molecular and Cellular Basis of Intestinal Postoperative Pathophysiology" at the Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
2005-2007 Research Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Medicine
"Immunological trigger mechanisms of the septic and postoperative intestinal inflammatory response."
2008-2010 Research associate at the Clinic and Polyclinic for General and Visceral Surgery at the Westphalian-Wilhelms University Münster
2010 Specialist examination for general surgery
2010-2012 Research Associate at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery of the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster Section of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation
2012-2016 Senior Physician at the Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster Section of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation
2015 Specialist examination for thoracic surgery
since 11/2016

Chief Physician of the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery Helios Klinikum Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Head of the Lung Cancer Center Bonn/Rhein-Sieg

since 03/2018 Deputy Medical Director Helios Hospital Bonn/Rhein-Sieg
since 04/2020

W2- Professorship Thoracic Surgery University Hospital Bonn, Head of Section Thoracic Surgery

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PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • Poster Prize of the 171st Meeting of the Association of Lower Rhine-Westphalian Surgeons

Schmidt J, Schäfer N, Tahara K, Zobel S, Hirner A, Türler A.

"Effect of organ removal surgery and organ preservation on the molecular inflammatory response of the small bowel muscularis in small bowel transplantation".

171st Meeting of the Vereinig. Niederrheinisch-Westfälischer Chirurgen, September, 2004, Cologne, Germany

  • Young Investigator Award of the American Motility Society 2007 

Schmidt J, Stoffels B, Chanthaphavong R, Nakao A, Pollard-Bey S, Maize A, Bauer A J.

"Intestinal Immunological Species Difference in Surgery and Sepsis." 

Diabetes and the Gut - Scientific Meeting, March 2007, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas.

  • Best Abstract Award Xth International Small Bowel Transplantation Symposium

Schaefer N, Tahara K, von Websky M, Schuchtrup S, Schmidt J, Abu-Elmagd K, Kalff JC, Hirner A, Türler A.

"Perioperative Glycine Treatment attenuates Ischemia/Reperfusion-Injury and ameliorates Smooth Muscle Dysfunction in Intestinal Transplantation".

Xth Int. Small Bowel Transplantation Symposium, Los Angeles, USA.

  • Excellence in Research Award of the American College of Surgeons

Schmidt J, Stoffels B, Chanthaphavong RS, Bauer AJ.

"Critical Inflammatory Role of EGR-1 in Endotoxin Induced Ileus."  

93rd Annual Congress American College of Surgeons, October 2007, New Orleans, USA.

  • Travel Award of the American Motility Society 2008

Schmidt J, Stoffels B, Buchholz MB, Chanthaphavong RS, Bauer AJ.

"Egr-1 Orchestrates the Jejunal Muscularis Inflammatory Response in Endotoxin Induced Ileus".        

Neurogastroenterology and Motility Joint Int. Meeting 2008, November 2008 Lucerne, Switzerland.

Memberships

  • Member of the German Society for Surgery
  • Member of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery
  • Member of the German Society for Thoracic Surgery
  • Member of the Association of German Surgeons

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