Christoph Röcken

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Christoph Röcken (born June 30, 1962 in Schleswig ) is a German pathologist and university professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He is head of the certified oncological center at the Karl Lennert Cancer Center UKSH Campus Kiel and Acting Clinical Director of the Cancer Center North as well as director of the Institute for Pathology at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel and the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein , Campus Kiel. He is known for his work in the field of hepato gastrointestinal pathology and amyloidosis .

Life

Röcken studied chemistry from 1982 to 1984 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and from 1984 to 1990 human medicine at the University of Hamburg . From 1990 to 1992 he was an intern and assistant doctor at the Institute for Pathology at the Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg and then an assistant doctor at the Institute for Pathology at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf . After completing his doctorate at the University of Hamburg, he worked as a scientific assistant in the department for gynecological histopathology and electron microscopy at the gynecological clinic at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf as part of a nine-month rotation program . In 1994 he received a training scholarship and went for one year to the Syl and Molly Apps Medical Research Center at Queen's University (Kingston) in Canada . In 1996 there was another stay abroad as House Officer in General Medicine at Halton General Hospital in Runcorn, England . From 1997 Röcken worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Pathology of the Medical Faculty of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg . In 1998 he completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi for the pathology department at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. After being recognized as a specialist in pathology in the same year, he was appointed senior physician at the Institute for Pathology of the Medical Faculty of the University of Magdeburg, and in 2002 he was appointed university lecturer (C2). After his facultative advanced training for molecular pathology was recognized in 2005 and Röcken was awarded the title of "Extraordinary Professor" by the Medical Faculty of the University of Magdeburg, in 2006 he accepted the call to full university professor (W2) at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin , where he was senior physician until 2009 as well as deputy director at the Institute for Pathology. Röcken has been a full university professor (W3) at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel since 2009. In addition, Röcken is currently director of the Institute for Pathology at the University of Kiel and the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel (since 2009) and research dean of the Medical Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (since 2012). In addition, since 2013 he has been the head of the certified oncological center at the Karl Lennert Cancer Center UKSH Campus Kiel.

Scientific contribution

Röckens scientific activity in the field of oncology aims to early detection and classification of malignant tumors and prognosis estimation on Bioptat improve and resected, and to treatment decisions through the use of tissue-specific diagnostics (predictive diagnostics) to draw at an early stage in terms of a targeted therapy, quality assured. The research activity is accompanied by a comprehensive commitment to the development and implementation of quality assurance measures. In his other focus area of ​​amyloids and amyloidoses, Röcken is working on ensuring and continuously improving the diagnosis and classification of systemic amyloidoses , as very different therapeutic consequences can be derived from this. Another aim is to keep an amyloid registry in order to enable systematic studies on large patient series of an otherwise rare disease and to be able to make statements about the epidemiology of amyloidoses in the future .

Memberships in scientific associations

Röcken currently contributes his expertise as a pathologist to numerous scientific associations. Among other things, he is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the European Society for Pathology . He is also Chairman of the Association oncological pathology of the German Cancer Society and board member of the German Society of Pathology eV and the German Society for amyloid diseases eV .. He is also assessor of the sector committee pathology / neuropathology the German Accreditation System for Testing (DAP) or since 2010 of the German Accreditation Service (DAkkS) . He is an editorial member of the journal Der Pathologe and the Virchows Archive .

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Röcken, Director of the Institute for Pathology, University of Kiel
  2. ↑ Christoph Röcken, Director of the Institute for Pathology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein
  3. ↑ Christoph Röcken, Dean of Research at the Medical Faculty of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
  4. ↑ Directorate of the Oncological Center at the Karl Lennert Cancer Center UKSH Campus Kiel
  5. ↑ C. Röcken, U. Neumann, M. Ebert: New ways of early detection, prognosis assessment and therapy of malignant tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. In: Z. Gastroenterol. 46 (2), Feb 2008, pp. 216-222.
  6. ^ V. Warneke, HM Behrens, C. Böger, T. Becker, F. Lordick, M. Ebert, C. Röcken: Her2 / neu-testing in gastric cancer - evaluating the risk of sampling errors. In: Ann Oncol. 24 (3), 2013, pp. 725-733.
  7. ↑ C. Röcken: Quality assurance in clinical trials - the role of pathology. In: Virchows Arch. 468 (1), Jan 2016, pp. 83-92.
  8. ↑ S. Schönland, U. Hegenbart, T. Bochtler, A. Mangatter, O. Hansberg, AD Ho, P. Lohse, C. Röcken: Immunohistochemistry in the classification of systemic forms of amyloidosis: a systematic investigation of 117 patients. In: Blood. 119 (2), 2012, pp. 488-493.
  9. ↑ amyloid register Kiel pdf
  10. ↑ Memberships, homepage Christoph Röcken
  11. ↑ Oncological Pathology, German Cancer Society
  12. ↑ Board members of the German Society for Pathology
  13. ↑ The pathologist. Springer publishing house.
  14. ↑ Virchow's Archives. Springer publishing house.
personal data
SURNAME Skirts, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig