Department of Dermatology and Venereology at University Hospital Cologne

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University Hospital Cologne

Cologne, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Thomas Krieg

Department of Dermatology and Venereology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Dermatology and Venereology at University Hospital of Cologne provides care for patients with diseases and tumors of the skin as well as sexually transmitted diseases. The department has special attention directed toward skin cancer as it's a part of the Center for Integrated Oncology where interdisciplinary therapeutic approaches are offered. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Med. Thomas Krieg, the medical staff treats more than 2,300 inpatients every year, 600 of which are skin cancer patients.
The facility has also achieved impressive results in the fields of collagen diseases and scleroderma as it participates in clinical studies and is also a part of the German Network for Systemic Scleroderma Association.

The Department of Dermatology and Venereology at University Hospital Cologne is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

Basal cell carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Malignant skin melanoma
Chronic wounds
Hirsutism
Molluscum contagiosum
Benign tumors of the skin
Inflammatory dermatoses
Syphilis
Chlamydia
Gonorrhea
HIV & AIDS

Education and professional career

since 2015: Speaker, Leopoldina class III (medicine), National Academy of Science
2012: Dr. honoris causa, Lund University, Sweden
since 2011: Dean, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
since 2009: Member, Founding Council University Medicine and University of Göttingen
2006 - 2015: Obmann and Senator Internal Medicine, National Academy of Science Leopoldina
since 2005: Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
2003 - 2015: Chair, Collaborative Research Center Cologne, SFB 589 / 829
2002 - 2011: Chair, German Network for Systemic Scleroderma
2001 - 2011: Member, Advisory Board of Deutsche Krebshilfe
2001 - 2011: Prorector for Research, University of Cologne
1999: Dr. honoris causa, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
since 1998: Member, National Academy of Science Leopoldina
1995 - 2003: Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne
1991: Max-Planck-Research Award of the A.v. Humboldt Society
since 1991: Professor and Director, Department of Dermatology, University of Cologne
1986 - 1991: Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Munich University
1984 - 1985: Heisenberg fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
1980 - 1984: Residency in Dermatology, Munich University
1979: Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
1979: Postdoctoral training, Institute for Cell Genetics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1975 - 1979: Research assistant, MPI for Biochemistry, Martinsried
1975: MD thesis in Pharmacology, Berlin Free University