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Academic degrees

• February 4th, 2011 Master of Health Business Administration

• November 23th, 2009 Professor of Surgery, University of Cologne

• November 17th, 2004 Acceptance of the „Habilitation thesis“ “Efficacy and safety of intraoperative radiofrequency induced thermoablation of liver malignancies“

• March 20th, 1991 Acceptance of the thesis with the title: „Auswirkungen einer präoperativen Dexamethasontherapie auf die PGE2- und PGF2a-Spiegel in Hirntumoren und im peritumorösen Hirngewebe“

Qualification

• October 2011 Fellow of the European Board of Surgery, UEMS Transplant Surgery

• June 27th, 2001 Certified surgical subspecialty: „Visceral surgery“

• August 26th, 1999 Certified surgical subspecialty: “Operative intensive care medicine”

• April 13th, 1999 Degree in “Medical Informatics”

• September 17th, 1997 Certified surgeon

Professional position

• since March 2013 Professor for Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery at the University of Cologne

• since 2006 Head of the transplant surgery section within the Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery

• since 2006 Vice – chairman of the Department of General, Visceral and Cancer Surgery

• since 2006 Head of the liver metastases group of the “Center of integrated Oncology” (CIO), National Cancer Center Cologne

• 1998 - 2006 Attending at the Department of Visceral and Vascular Surgery; University of Cologne, Director: Prof. Dr. A. H. Hölscher

Awards

• 2006 German guest scholar at the „American College of Surgeons“

• 2005 „Hochhaus-Preis“ award of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne for research achievement in 2004

Membership in Scientific Societies

• since 1992 German Transplantation Society

• since 1996 German Surgical Society

• since 2001 German Society of Visceral Surgery

• since 2003 European Society of Surgical Research

• since 2010 European Society of Organ Transplantation

• since 2014 The Transplant Society (TTS)

• since 2017 European Surgical Association