University Hospital Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer
Department of Hematology and Oncology
Department of Hematology and Oncology at University Hospital Magdeburg provides care for patients with organ cancer as well as blood malignancies and clotting disorders. The department is in close cooperation with other departments to ensure patients get specialists’ care in every step of the management plan for both inpatients and outpatients. The facility has the latest, cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutics as a certified center for hematological diagnostics.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr.med. Thomas Fischer, the medical team has achieved great success in the management of leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, sarcoma, and solid tumors as it treats over 1,000 patients every year. The research unit has many basic research projects and clinical trials running in close cooperation with many organizations such as the German Study Group Gastrointestinal lymphoma (GSGL), German Hodgkin Study Group (DHSG), and The European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT).
The Department of Hematology and Oncology at University Hospital Magdeburg is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Leukemia
- Myeloproliferative disorders
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Anemia
- Thalassemia
- Hemorrhagic tendency
- Hypercoagulability
- Liver cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Brain tumors
- Kidney tumors
Education
- 1980-1981 Romanian studies at the University of Craiova, Romania
- 1981-1982 Medical studies at the University of Cluj, Romania
- 1982-1983 Medical studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 1983-1984 Medical studies at the Hannover Medical School
- 1985 Scholarship holder of the Soltenborn Foundation
- 1984-1987 Medical studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 1987 - 1988 Practical year: Tufts University, Boston, USA (Scholarship holder of the "Biomedical Sciences Exchange Program between The United States and West Germany"); Krh.Seesen; Krh. Bad Harzburg
Academic Grade
- 1988 Doctorate to Dr. med. at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, evaluation: Magna cum laude
- 2000 Habilitation and venia legendi for the subject "Internal Medicine" at the Faculty of Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (molecular studies on signal transduction of IFN-induced genes in leukemic and normal haematopoietic cells)
Professional Background
- 10/1988 - 3/1990 DFG postdoctoral fellowship in the clinical working group of the Max Planck Society at the Medical University Clinic Göttingen (Head: Prof. Dr. K. Pfizenmaier)
- 4/1990 - 9/1990 "Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the" Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada (Prof. Dr. B. Williams)
- 10/1990 - 11/1996 Assistant at the III. Medical Clinic of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Director: Prof. Dr. C. Huber)
- 1/1995 - 12/1995 "Clinical Fellowship in Hematology / Oncology at the "Department for Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, USA
- 5/1996 Specialist certification for internal medicine
- 12/1996 - 6/2008 Senior physician and working group leader at the Medical Clinic of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Establishment and management of the scientific laboratory for oncogenic signal transduction.
- 1/1998 Recognition of hematology and internal oncology
- 3/2001-4/2004 Medical Director and representative of Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Huber at the III. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Strategic, operational, economic, personnel management, and administrative "management" of the III. Medical clinic and polyclinic.
- 3/2005 Appointment to a professorship (W2) for "leukemia and tumor research" in the medical department of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz at the III. Medical clinic and polyclinic (endowed professorship).
- Since 5/2009 Univ.-Professor (W3) and Director of the Clinic for Hematology and Oncology at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Department of Hematology and Oncology
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