University Hospital Düsseldorf
Dusseldorf, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Dieter Häussinger
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology
The University Hospital Düsseldorf’s Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology offers a wide range of services including the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the liver, gastrointestinal tract, and pancreas. The department also has specialists for the treatment of gastrointestinal tumors (esophagus, stomach, intestine and pancreas, liver. The department has a certified intestinal care unit. High-tech endoscopy, (contrast media) sonography and sonographically-controlled punctures are among the core competencies. In addition, all common procedures to formulate a diagnosis of gastroenterological diseases, like functional diagnostics (respiratory tests, pH-metres, manometries of the esophagus and the rectum), are performed at the department. The department is also a regional center for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic liver diseases and their complications.
In addition, the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology is certified by the Center for Infectious Diseases. All forms of hepatitis, HIV infections, and tropical infectious diseases are treated here.
The department has more than 10 special outpatient clinics. Patients with various diseases of the esophagus, stomach, intestine, bile, pancreas or liver are treated at the general gastroenterological outpatient clinic. The hepatitis outpatient department is the national contact point for patients with chronic hepatitis B, C, and D. More than 1000 patients are advised and cared at the hepatitis unit every year. While the cure rate was just 10% in the early 1990s, recently they have a cure rate of 50% to 70%.
The liver transplant unit performs more than 200 transplants and provides extensive care to the patients who have just undergone a liver transplant every year.
Another focus of the clinic is the tropical medicine. This is an important point of contact in the region for tropical diseases, vaccinations, travel advice, and tropical studies. This service is useful for public health and multinationals who transact business in the tropical regions.
The department is equipped with all modern diagnostic and therapeutic options.
The Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology at the University Hospital Düsseldorf is specialized in:
- Acute and chronic liver disease and their complications
- Gastrointestinal disease
- Wide range of therapies for gastrointestinal tumors and liver cancer
- Hepatitis and HIV therapy
- Congenital cholestatic liver diseases
- Congenital metabolic diseases
- Vaccination and travel advice
- High-tech endoscopy, sonography, and functional diagnostics
Scientific and Professional Career
- Since 2011, Head of the Center for Hepatology and Infectiology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- Since 2010, Director of the Hirsch Institute of Tropical Medicine, Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia.
- 2005 - 2008 Managing Director of the Center for Internal Medicine and Neurology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- 2005 Additional qualifications in Infectiology, as well as the appointment as an Examiner at the Medical Association of North Rhine.
- Since 1994, Professor of Internal Medicine and Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- 1991 - 1994 Professor of the Hermann and Lilly Schilling Foundation.
- 1989 Invitation to the Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Muenster.
- 1988 Appointment as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Freiburg.
- 1986 - 1989 Medical Specialist in Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology.
- 1984 Habilitation, Internal Medicine
- 1977 Admission to medical practice.
- 1976 - 1977 Clinical activities at the Regional Hospital Nördlingen.
- 1977 - 1978 Lieutenant Colonel of the Navy Medical Service, 1st Submarine Squadron in Kiel.
- 1979 - 1994 Clinical activities, Medical University of Freiburg.
- 1976 Doctoral thesis defense.
- 1970 - 1976 Study of Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Positions in Scientific Societies and Organizations
- 2015 - 2016 President of the German Association for the Study of the Liver (GASL).
- Since 2011, Presidium Member of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts (since 2016 Vice President).
- Since 2011, Council Member of the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- Since 2010, Senate Member of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community.
- Since 2010, Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation.
- Since 2009, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology.
- 2007 - 2013 Member of the Senate Commission of the German Research Foundation for the Promotion of German-Israeli Projects.
- 2006 - 2007 Member of the Senate of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- 2000 - 2007 Member of the Medical Committee of the Scientific Council.
- 1998 - 2002 Dean of the Medical Faculty at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and Board Member of the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- 1997 - 2000 Member of the Senate and Licensing Committee of the German Research Foundation for the Special Research Areas.
Awards and Honorary Memberships
- 2012 Cross of Merit, 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 2011 Yaku Okuda Medal for Excellence in Cell Volume Regulation Research.
- 2011 Medal of Honor of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- 2008 ISHEN Award Padua.
- Since 2004, Member of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Arts.
- 2003 Medal of Merit of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- Since 2002, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
- 2002 Dr. Robert Pfleger Research Award.
- 2001 Géza Héteni Medal.
- Since 2001, Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Gastroenterology.
- 1998 Kone Award of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry, Glasgow.
- 1995 Honorary Award of the Druidenorden.
- 1994 NUTRIM Prize.
- 1991 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
- 1990 Medal of the Faculty of Medicine at Okayama University.
- 1989 Tannhauser Prize of the German Society for Gastroenterology, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases.
- 1984 Friedrich Wewalki Prize.
- 1985 - 1990 Heisenberg Scholarship, German Research Foundation
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