University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Ansgar W. Lohse

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf provides the medical care for patients with gastrointestinal, liver and biliary system diseases as well as infectious diseases. The department is in close cooperation with the departments of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, General Surgery and Radiology. The department is well-known for its liver transplantation surgeries as well as the treatment of significant infectious diseases, as it works together with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Ansgar W. Lohse, the department treats more than 8,800 inpatients every year. The outpatient clinic for hepatitis of the department is considered as the largest one in Germany and the one for autoimmune liver diseases is the only one in Germany. The department also has the first center for liver elasticity measurement in all of northern Germany.

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectiology at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Autoimmune hepatitis
•   Primary sclerosing cholangitis
•   Hepatitis (A, B, C D & E)
•   Steatohepatitis
•   Acute kidney failure
•   Cirrhosis
•   Portal hypertension
•   Hepatocellular carcinoma
•   Neuroendocrine tumors
•   Crohn’s disease
•   Pancreatitis

Education

10.1978 - 08.1981 Study of Medicine and Philosophy at the University of Göttingen.
09.1981 - 12.1982 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London.
01.1983 - 08.1983 Continued to study Medicine at the University of Göttingen.
1983 1st part of one-year practice at the Hospital of the College London (Pediatrics).
1984 2nd part of one-year practice at the Harvard Medical School, Boston (Internal Medicine).
1984 3rd part of one-year practice at the hospital in Bremen (Surgery).
10.1984 Medical examination.
11.1984 Admission to medical practice
02.1987 Doctoral thesis defense. Subject: "Vasoactive intestinal peptide in colon biopsy in case of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis".

Clinical Training and Professional Career

1985 - 1986 Center for Internal Medicine, Phillips University of Marburg.
1986 - 1987 Research Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
1987 - 1989 Research internship in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. med. I.R. Cohen, Department of Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
1989 - 1994 Research Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
1993 Board certification in Internal Medicine.
1994 Habilitation in Internal Medicine.
1994 - 2000 Senior Physician, Department of Internal Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
1996 - 2004 University Lecturer (C2).
1998 Theoretical basics of specialty, laboratory research in the field of internal medicine.
2000 Extraordinary Professor.
2001 Optional advanced training in Special Internal Intensive Care.
2001 - 2004 Leading Senior Physician, Department of Internal Medicine I, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Since 01.2005 Head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Infectology at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.
2006 Additional qualification in Infectology.
Since 2007 Medical Director of the Center for Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Scholarships, Awards, and Honors

1976 - 1978 Fellow of the United World College of the Atlantic, Student Foundation of the German People.
1980 - 1984 Scholarship, Evangelischen Studienwerkes Villigst.
09.1981 - 12.1982 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service, University of London.
1984 Scholarship for training abroad, Carl Duisberg Foundation, Harvard Medical School.
04.1987 - 03.1989 Educational scholarship of the German Research Foundation.
09.1989 Herbert Herxheimer International Scientific Prize of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology.
10.1994 Young Clinicians Award, World Gastroenterology Congress, Los Angeles.
05.1995 Boehringer Ingelheim Prize.
09.1997 K.A. Ewald Prize of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases.
09.1998 1st Poster Award and Presidential Poster Award of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases.
12.2000 Innovation Award for the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate.
05.2002 Visiting Professor, Yuan Clinic, Beijing Medical School, China.
2008 Member of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences.