University Hospital Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Peter R. Mertens
Department of Nephrology, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Endocrinology
Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Diabetes, and Endocrinology at University Hospital Magdeburg provides care for patients with kidney and endocrine diseases as well as diabetes mellitus. The department is in close cooperation with the Vascular Center and the Obesity Center to offer the full range of treatment options for vascular lesions and obesity. The staff has achieved impressive results in the treatment of glomerulonephritis, autoimmune diseases, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, neuroendocrine tumors as well as renal failure as it offers the full range of renal replacement therapeutic methods.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Peter R. Mertens and as a nationally and internationally recognized center of excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of renal and hypertensive disorders, endocrine diseases, and neuroendocrine tumors, over 1,600 inpatients seek the medical care of the facility every year. The department follows the standards of the German Diabetes Society. The department is a member of many centers of the University Medical Center Magdeburg where complicated cases of neuroendocrine tumors, obesity of renal diseases are properly managed.
The Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Diabetes, and Endocrinology at University Hospital Magdeburg is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Diabetes mellitus type 1
- Diabetes mellitus type 2
- Glomerulonephritis
- IgA nephropathy
- Cushing's disease
- Acromegaly
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Neuroendocrine tumors
- Hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Goiter
- Addison's disease
- Renal failure
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney stones
Medical and scientific work
- 1991-1992 Civilian alternative service and internship at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf in the Medical Clinic, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Immunology Head: Prof. Dr. W. Schneider
- 1992 approbation as Doctor
- 1992 Doctoral thesis: "The hormonal regulation of adenylate cyclase of a medullary thyroid carcinoma cell line", supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Keck Rating: "summa cum laude
- 1992-1994 Scientific assistant in the Medical Clinic II, Department of Nephrology at RWTH Aachen University, Head: Prof. Dr. H.-G. Sieberth
- 1993 USMLE, step 1 (US medical licensing examination)
- 1994 USMLE, step 2 (US medical licensing examination)
- 1995-1996 Award of a training grant from the DFG (Me 1365) at the SFVAMC / University of California in San Francisco, USA with Prof. Dr. DH Lovett. Work on pathomechanisms in the development and progression of glomerular diseases
- 01 / 1997- 06 / 1997 Research Fellow SFVAMC / University of California in San Francisco, USA. Working group: Prof. Dr. DH Lovett
- 07 / 1997- 06 / 1998 Specialist training at the Medical Clinics of the RWTH Aachen University, scientific assistant in the Medical Clinic II, Department of Nephrology, Hematology and Immunology, Head: Prof. Dr. H.-G. Sieberth
- 06/1998 Obtaining the area designation for internal medicine
- since 05/1999 Senior Physician of the Medical Clinic II
- 06/1999 Senior Scientific Assistant (C1)
- 11/1999 Venia legendi for internal medicine
- since 12/2000 Senior Scientific Assistant (C2)
- since 07/2001 Project area leader in the Collaborative Research Center 542 "Molecular Mechanisms of Cytokine-Controlled Inflammatory Processes: Signal Transduction and Pathophysiological Consequences"
- 03/2003 Obtaining the sub-area designation for "Nephrology"
- 05/2005 Appointment as an adjunct professor
- 12/2006 Obtaining the additional title "Diabetology"
- 04/2007- 06/2009 Member of the "Young Nephrology Committee" of the (ISN)
- 05/2007 Applicant DFG project: Influence of the Y-box protein-1 on Notch signal transduction and cell differentiation (ME 1365 / 6-1)
- 09/2007 Obtaining the additional qualification in hypertensiology (DHL)
- since 04/2009 University professorship for nephrology (W3); Director of the Clinic for Kidney and Hypertension; Diseases & Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Prizes and awards
- 1998 ASN, blue-ribbon abstract (best 5% rating)
- 2005 Travel grant ERA-EDTA
- 2006 Fritz Linder Forum Prize German Society for Surgery Lynen Jansen P., Klinge U., Hungol M., Krott E., Lovett DH,
- Jansen M., Mertens PR "The response element 1 regulates the expression of MMP-2 in wound healing: Results from the transgenic mouse model
- 2006 Franz Volhard Prize (highest award of the German Society for Nephrology)
Department of Nephrology, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Endocrinology
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