Department of General, Abdominal, Transplant, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery at University Hospital Würzburg

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University Hospital Würzburg

Würzburg, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Christoph-Thomas Germer

Department of General, Abdominal, Transplant, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of General, Abdominal, Transplant, Vascular, and Pediatric Surgery at University Hospital Würzburg provides surgical care for patients of all ages with diseases of the abdominal organs and blood vessels. The department is a part of the Center of the Operative Medicine Center at Oberdürrbacher Street and is also a significant member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken. The facility offers its service for infants, children, adolescents, and adults for the full spectrum of visceral and vascular diseases with significant focus directed to the treatment of tumors as a certified Visceral Oncology Center by the German Cancer Society.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Christoph-Thomas Germer, the medical team treats around 6,000 inpatients every year, many of which have inflammatory and neoplastic diseases of the digestive tract and organs that are managed in the gastrointestinal function lab. The department also has a certified Obesity Center for the treatment of morbidly obese patients and a multi-disciplinary Liver Center for the treatment of liver and gall bladder diseases, including transplantation surgeries. The stations offer the latest, most advanced diagnostics and therapeutics as well as minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of vascular diseases, pediatric disorders, hernias, and endocrine glands diseases.
The Department of General, Abdominal, Transplant, Vascular, and Pediatric Surgery at University Hospital Würzburg is specialized in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of:

Esophageal varices
Swallowing disorders
Achalasia
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Esophageal cancer
Pancreatitis
Hepatitis
Liver cancer
Pancreas cancer
Diverticulitis
Colorectal cancer
Aneurysms
Peripheral artery disease
Carotid stenosis
Inguinal hernia
Umbilical hernia
Vascular shunts

Education and Professional Experience

1979 - 1985 Study of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin.
1986 - 2004 Surgical training: Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery (Surgical Hospital) Benjamin Franklin University
Hospital, Free University of Berlin.
1986 Title of the Candidate of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Clinical Medicine.
1992 Certified Surgeon.
1994 Qualification in Vascular Surgery.
1997 Specialization in Abdominal Surgery.
1999 Doctoral thesis defense, subject: "Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) as a treatment method for liver malignant tumors".
1999 Venia Legendi in Surgery.
2002 Invitation to the position of (C3) Professor of General and Abdominal Surgery at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin.
1993 - 2004 Senior Physician of Abdominal, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Outpatient Intensive Care Unit.
2000 - 2004 Head of the Department of Surgery I, Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charite University Hospital Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin.
2005 Additional qualification in Minimally Invasive Surgery, Surgical Working Group on Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIC).
2004 - 2008 Head of the Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery, Nuremberg Hospital.
2008 Invitation to the position of (W3) Professor of Surgery at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
2012 Qualification in Special Abdominal Surgery.
Since 2008, Medical Director in the Department of General, Abdominal, Transplant, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery at the University Hospital Würzburg.