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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Treatment of all acute and chronic diseases in the field of gastroenterology
  • Pain and problems of the digestive tract
  • Diagnostic and therapy of swallowing problems
  • Treatment of defecation problems
  • Diagnostic and treatment of acute and chronic liver diseases
  • Functional analysis
  • Ultrasound diagnostics and biopsies of hepatic tissue
  • Endoscopic diagnostics
  • Ascites puncture
  • Sclerotherapy of eosophageal varices
  • Treatment of various hepatic tumours
  • Treatment of diverse infections

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

Education

1977 to 1988

Studies of human medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, during which time he completed a clinical traineeship at St. Johns Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Paul/Minneapolis, USA

1983 Approbation
1984 Clinical and scientific training at the Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
1985 Doctorate in medicine
1985 Completion of the American ECFMG exam for preclinical and clinical subjects in Bonn
1988 to 1990 Scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation (DFG) as Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology of the College of Medicine at Ohio State University, USA
1989 Postdoctoral Research Award of the American Physiological Society, Gastrointestinal Section, New Orleans, USA
1992 Specialist in internal medicine
1993 Receipt of the Hörlein Prize at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
1993 Receipt of the Venia Legendi for Internal Medicine
1994 Receipt of the Dr. Norbert Henning Prize
1994 Receipt of the Science Award of the Society for Gastroenterology in NRW with co-authors
1994 Acquisition of the sub-specialty designation Gastroenterology from the North Rhine Medical Association
1997

Receipt of the Janssen Young Investigator Award with co-authors

Career Path

1993 to 2000
Senior physician and most recently senior consultant at the Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
1998 Appointment as professor of internal medicine with a focus on neurogastroenterology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2000 to 2008
Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine with Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectiology, Hematology and Oncology at Krefeld Municipal Hospital, meanwhile: Expansion to include the specialist areas of neurogastroenterology, nutritional medicine and palliative medicine
2006 "Fellow in Gastroenterology" according to the criteria of the European Board of Gastroenterology (EUMS)
2007, 2008, 2009

Acquisition of the sub-specialty designations of proctology, palliative medicine and medical tumor therapy at the North Rhine Medical Association

since 2008
Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine with Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Neurogastroenterology, Infectiology, Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine
since 2013
Medical Director of the Helios Private Clinic Krefeld

Academic activities

Scientific profile

  • Peer review publications: over 200
  • Reviews in periodicals and journals: over 250
  • Publications of monographs, textbooks and handbooks: over 100
  • Lectures: over 700
  • Congress contributions: over 250
  • Doctoral students: 20

Memberships

  • Reviewer for various national and international scientific journals
  • Advisory board member of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)
  • Board member of the Gastro-Liga
  • Chairman of the Working Group of Senior Gastroenterology Hospital Doctors (ALGK)
  • District delegate of the Association of German Internists (BDI)
  • Founder of the Foundation for Neurogastroenterology

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