University Hospital RWTH Aachen

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Aachen, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Ulf Peter Neumann

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at University Hospital RWTH Aachen provides the surgical interventions needed by patients with conditions affecting the abdominal organs as well as tumors. The department offers minimally invasive, complex and organ transplantation procedures.
The department has an extraordinary medical team that follows the latest guidelines for surgery and uses the most advanced equipment as the LIMAX system. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Med. Ulf Peter Neumann, more than 2,000 inpatients are treated in this department every year. In cooperation with Departments of Internal Medicine, Anesthesia and Radiology, this department performs more than 3,000 procedures a year. Liver transplantation is one of the main focuses of this department. In the last decade, more than 150 liver transplantation surgeries were successfully performed at the department.
The department has an exceptional research team that monitors and develops new equipment as well as new surgical methods for a better outcome and reduces pain, bleeding and rehabilitation period. The main focuses of the research units at the moment are surgical treatment and post-surgical chemotherapy for malignant tumors.

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at University Hospital RWTH Aachen is specialized in the surgical treatment for:

•   Obesity
•   Liver cancer
•   Bile duct cancer
•   Stomach cancer
•   Gallstones
•   Pancreas cancer
•   Klatskin tumor
•   Thyroid cancer
•   Parathyroid cancer
•   Thyroid disorder
•   Neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract
•   Inguinal hernia
•   Umbilical hernia
•   Undescended testicles
•   Crohn’s disease
•   Ulcerative colitis

Education

October 1986 - May 1987 Study of Human Medicine at the Free University of Berlin.
May 1987 Preliminary Medical Examination (Physics), Free University of Berlin.
14.03.1989 Part 1 of Medical Examination, Free University of Berlin.
10.04.1990 Part 2 of Medical Examination, Free University of Berlin.
20.03.1992 Part 3 of Medical Examination, Free University of Berlin.

Professional ?areer

May 1993 Preliminary admission to medical practice.
May 1993 - November 1994 Intern, Department of General, Abdominal and Transplant Surgery.
November 1994 Admission to medical practice, Research Fellow in the Department of General, Abdominal and Transplant Surgery.
1998 Thesis defense at the Free University of Berlin. Subject: "The value of nitric oxide in human liver transplantation".
May 1999 - May 2000 Research Fellow in the Department of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, Charite University Hospital Berlin, Campus Virchow.
September 2000 Specialization in Surgery.
March 2003 Surgical Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Humboldt University of Berlin.
March 2003 Venia legendi in Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Humboldt University of Berlin. Subject of the habilitation work: "Examination of the effectiveness of CTLA-4Ig therapy in combination with adoptive cell transfer for the prevention of rejection reactions in rat orthotopic transplantation models".
Since June 2002 Senior Physician, Department of General, Abdominal and Transplant Medicine, Charite University Hospital Berlin.
Since 2006 Deputy Head of the Department of General, Abdominal and Transplant Medicine, Charite University Hospital Berlin.
August 2006 Specialization in Abdominal Surgery, Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric General, Abdominal, Transplant
Surgery at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen.