Jürgen Weitz

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Jürgen Weitz (born October 8, 1966 in Mannheim ) is a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Weitz is the son and grandson of the chemists Hans-Martin Weitz and Ernst Weitz . He attended the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Bad Dürkheim . After graduating from high school on July 14, 1985, he did basic military service from July 1985 to September 1986 . From the winter semester 1986/87 he studied medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . With a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service , he was meanwhile at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) . He wrote his doctoral thesis under the later Nobel Prize winner Harald zur Hausen . In 1993 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD.

Heidelberg

He was an intern at Heidelberg Surgery from 1993–1995. He also stayed with Christian Herfarth for specialist training as a surgeon. Specialist since December 1999 , he qualified as a professor in surgery on April 26, 2001 . He became senior physician on May 1, 2001 and from July 2001 he was a year and a half Fellow for Surgical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. After another year as senior physician at the Heidelberg clinic, Herfarth's successor, Markus W. Büchler, entrusted him with the head of the surgical oncology section and the deputy head of the kidney transplantation section on January 1, 2004. From 2004–2006 he completed the health management course in Heidelberg , which he completed as a Master of Science . In the spring of 2005, he received recognition in visceral surgery and special surgical intensive care medicine . On July 1, 2005, he became first senior physician and joined Jens-Rainer Allenberg in 2006 through rotation in vascular surgery . Büchler appointed him in July 2007 as managing director and in January 2009 as chief senior physician of Heidelberg Surgery. From October 2009 he headed the clinical research group Colorectal Cancer funded by the German Research Foundation : “From primary tumor progression towards metastases” (KFO 227). Since August 1, 2011, he has been Deputy Head of the Transplant Surgery Section , and was appointed W3 Professor for Surgical Oncology on December 15, 2011 .

Dresden

1 September 2012, he followed the call of the Technical University of Dresden to the Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, succeeding Hans-Detlev Saeger . Since then he has been director of the surgical clinic and polyclinic at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden . Since January 2016 he has been a member of the executive board of the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT / UCC).

Work areas

Weitz specializes in the surgical treatment of diseases of the digestive system (esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum, pancreas, peritoneum, gall bladder and liver) and of sarcomas . The focus is on tumor surgery, the use of minimally invasive and robotic surgical procedures and transplant surgery. Scientifically, he deals with questions of tumor progression, the development of prognostic and predictive factors in gastrointestinal carcinoma as well as robotics , navigation and the application of artificial intelligence in surgical oncology. He is co-author of over 400 publications and numerous book chapters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Surgery TU Dresden
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Human papilloma viruses (HPV) and virus / host cell interaction: Studies on the regulation of the cellular HPV enhancer binding protein p92 by growth factors and by a cell cycle-controlled inhibitor I-92 .
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Detection of disseminated colorectal carcinoma cells in blood, lymph nodes and bone marrow .
  4. ↑ Master's thesis: New approaches for controlling the inpatient flow of patients through a central admission management .
  5. ↑ Clinic director newly appointed to the Dresden University Hospital expands the spectrum of VTG surgery (IDW)
  6. ^ NCT / UCC
  7. ↑ Central German Surgeons Association
personal data
SURNAME Weitz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim