University Hospital Bonn- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Infectiology, Endocrinology and Diabetology

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University hospital Bonn

Bonn, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Christian Strassburg

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Infectiology, Endocrinology and Diabetology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Infectiology, Endocrinology, and Diabetology at University Hospital Bonn provides care for patients suffering from diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary tract, pancreas, endocrine glands, and kidney as well as infectious diseases including HIV and AIDS. The department is a part of the Liver Organ Commission of the German Transplantation Society for its liver transplantation efforts.
A special interest of the department is transplantation surgeries. The department has a transplantation unit which is in cooperation with the Surgical Clinic of the University Hospital Bonn. The department is a part of the Liver Organ Commission of the German Transplantation Society for its liver transplantation efforts. It’s also in cooperation with the Department of Urology and Surgical Center for transplantations of kidneys and combined kidney and pancreas transplants. The department directs significant interests towards thyroid disorders and that’s why it’s in cooperation with the Department of Nuclear Medicine.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Christian Strassburg, the department treats more than 3,500 inpatients every year. The department has research activities, especially to study HIV, liver diseases, portal, and splanchnic hemodynamics.

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Infectiology, Endocrinology, and Diabetology at University Hospital Bonn is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Esophageal varices
•   Esophageal stenosis
•   Reflux disease
•   Heartburn
•   Hepatitis (A, B, C, D, E)
•   Acute hepatic failure
•   Chronic hepatic failure
•   Intestinal inflammation
•   Inflammatory intestinal syndrome
•   Gallstones
•   Biliary duct occlusion
•   Tumors of the gastrointestinal tract
•   Tumors of the liver
•   Diabetes Mellitus Type 1
•   Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
•   Goiter
•   Hypothyroidism
•   Hyperthyroidism
•   Kidney stones
•   Acute renal failure
•   Chronic renal failure
•   Arterial hypertension
•   HIV infection
•   Tuberculosis
•   Lipid metabolism disorders
•   Hypopituitarism
•   Hyperpituitarism
•   Cushing Syndrome.
•   Addison’s Disease
•   Tumors of the endocrine glands
•   Bone metabolism disorders

Curriculum vitae of Prof. Dr. med. Christian Strassburg

Education and Professional Experience

1986 - 1993 Study of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School and Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Philadelphia; Ph.D. thesis defense, Internship in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School (Head: Prof. Dr. med. M. P. Manns).
1995 Admission to medical practice.
1996 ECFMG certification, USA.
1996 - 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, Cancer Center and Department of Pharmacology (German Research Foundation).
2000 Doctoral thesis defense and Venia Legendi (Hannover Medical School).
2001 Certificated Therapist and appointed as a Senior Physician in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School.
2001 - 2012 Managing Senior Therapist of the Section of Interdisciplinary Liver Transplantation at the Hanover Transplant Center.
2002 - 2005 Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Research Foundation.
2005 Certificated Therapist/Gastroenterologist.
2005 - 2012 Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School.
Since 2012 Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Diabetology, Endocrinology, and Infectology at the University Hospital Bonn (W3 Professor, Department of Internal Medicine I).

Awards and Honors

1997 Pete Lopiccola Fellowship Award, University of California, San Diego.
1998 Dr. Norbert Henning Prize in Gastroenterology, University of Erlangen.
2004 Genetics Committee Member of the International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group.
2006 Appointment as an Extraordinary Professor.
2006 Secretary of the Annual Congress of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS), Hannover.
2007 Appointment as W2 University Professor in Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School.
2008 Scientific Committee of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX), Regional Meeting, Lisbon.
2009 Appointment as W3 Professor and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at the University Hospital Rostock (refusal).
Since 2009 Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee on Liver Diseases of the German Transplantation Society (DTG), position on the Eurotransplant Liver Intestine Advisory Committee (ELIAC).
2011 Elected Chairman of the Liver and Intestine Committee (DTG), Member of the Eurotransplant Liver Intestinal Advisory Committee, Organ Transplantation Committee (StäKO), German Medical Association and Federal Expert Group on Liver Diseases of the AQUA Institute.
2012 Position of W3 Professor in Internal Medicine and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nephrology, Diabetology, Endocrinology, and Infectology at the University Hospital Bonn.
2013 Board Secretary of the German Transplantation Society.
2015 President of the North Rhine-Westphalian Society of Gastroenterology.
2016 BÄK Scientific Advisory Board
2016 Position of President of the German Transplantation Society.
2017 President of the 26th Annual Meeting of the German Transplantation Society, Bonn.

Main Clinical Focuses

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology, internal medicine.
Chronic and acute diseases of the biliary tract, infectious and non-infectious diseases of the liver, liver tumors, genetic liver diseases.
Diagnostic and interventional endoscopy, ultrasound examination.
Transplant medicine.
Immune-mediated and autoimmune diseases.

Main Research Focuses

Molecular carcinogenesis.
Molecular mechanisms of the barrier functioning of the mucous membrane in the gastrointestinal tract.
Metabolism, drug and xenobiotic metabolism, pharmacogenetics.
Basics of liver transplantation and chronic liver disease.
Developmental mechanisms of liver fibrosis.
Autoimmune liver diseases, autoimmune serology and genetics.
Gene regulation and signal transduction in inflammatory and neoplastic diseases.
Diagnostics and development of therapeutic regimens for the treatment of genetic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver.

Membership in Professional Societies