University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Hamburg, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Schneider

Department of Dermatology and Venereology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Dermatology and Venereology at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf provides the medical care for skin diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. Special attention is directed towards skin tumors, chronic wounds, psoriasis, eczema, allergy, and autoimmune diseases. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Med. Stefan W. Schneider, the department treats nearly 7,000 inpatients and 23,000 outpatients yearly and has also performed about 2,500 surgical operations last year. The department has a great reputation in consultation service which goes beyond the borders of Hamburg.
The research unit of this department gives special focus to topics such as the barrier function of the skin, wound healing, dermato-oncology, andrology and new allergy tests for the skin and eye. Inflammatory diseases such as atopic dermatitis and psoriasis are one of the key aspects of the researches conducted as well as andrological tumors and wound healing.

Department of Dermatology and Venereology at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Dermatoses
•   Hay fever
•   Insect venom allergy
•   Food allergy
•   Pemphigus Vulgaris
•   Systemic scleroderma
•   Lupus erythematosus
•   Dermatomyositis
•   Sjogren syndrome
•   Vasculitis
•   Scleromyxoedema
•   Malignant melanoma
•   Basal cell carcinoma
•   Lymphoma
•   Merkel cell carcinoma
•   Primary cutaneous lymphoma
•   Atopic eczema
•   Chronic wounds
•   Chlamydia
•   Genital herpes
•   Genital warts
•   Gonorrhea
•   Syphilis

Education

11.1987 - 05.1994 Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg.
11.1989 - 02.1994 Doctoral thesis on Physiology, University of Würzburg.
05.1994 Admission to medical practice, University of Würzburg.
07.1994 Doctoral degree (Summa cum Laude)

Scientific Degrees

1994 Doctoral thesis on Physiology, University of Würzburg, Germany.
2001 Habilitation on Physiology, University of Muenster, Germany.

Professional Career

08.1994 - 07.1996 Scholarship of the German Research Foundation at the Department of Physiology at the University of Würzburg, Department of Surgery and Cellular Physiology, Yale University, USA.
08.1996 - 09.1997 Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg.
08.1997 - 09.1997 Scholarship (Anniversary Award of the University of Würzburg), Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, USA.
10.1997 - 06.2002 Department of Physiology, University of Muenster.
11.1997 Admission to medical practice.
Since 11.2000 Head of the Working Group "Cell dynamics".
07.2001 Habilitation (Venia legendi in Physiology).
03.2002 Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital Muenster.
08.2002 Specialization in Physiology.
Since 2005 Development aid in Cambodia (regularly in Phnom Penh).
04.2006 Specialization in Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology.
06.2006 Senior Research Leader, Department of Dermatology, University of Muenster.
06.2006 3rd place in the list of W3 Professors of Physiology, University of Ulm.
06.2007 Extraordinary Professor.
09.2008 Specialization in Phlebology.
12.2008 Full W3 Professor, "Cellular Differentiation", University of Mannheim.
11.2011 Certificate "Good clinical practice".
12.2008 - 09.2016 Head of the Section of Experimental Dermatology and Deputy Head of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology.
Since 10.2016 Head of the Department of Dermatology and Venereology at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Prizes and Honors

05.1995 Franconian Science Prize in Human Medicine.
03.1999 Bennigsen Foerder Award.
04.2005 Oskar Gans Award in Dermatology.
10.2007 Award for "innovative medical technology" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).