Markus Hohenfellner

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Markus Hohenfellner (born September 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian doctor , urologist and university professor .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1977 in Schondorf am Ammersee , he studied medicine in Innsbruck until 1983 , interrupted by a stay abroad in 1980/81 at the University of London and the University of Oxford .

After two and a half years of general surgical training and two and a half years of basic nephrological research at the Physiological Institute of the University of Munich, he began his urological specialist training in 1988 at the Urological Department of the University of Witten / Herdecke Wuppertal. In 1993 he became a specialist in urology and in 1994 a specialist in special urological surgery.

In 1990/91 Hohenfellner received a scholarship at the Urological University Clinic UC San Francisco. The scientific and clinical work he carried out there formed the basis of his habilitation in 1994. In the same year he became a senior physician at the Urological University Clinic in Wuppertal . Since 1997 he has worked as a senior consultant at the Urological Clinic at the University of Mainz .

Hohenfellner has been Medical Director of the Heidelberg University Clinic since October 1, 2003 . He is the successor of Gerd Staehler , who took over the urology chair from Lars Röhl in 1989 .

He is married and has a daughter.

Services

Hohenfellner's scientific and clinical focus is on urological oncology and tumor surgery, minimally invasive urology including Da Vinci robotics and reconstructive urology. Under his responsibility, the Heidelberg University Clinic now covers the entire spectrum of modern urology, including prevention, early detection, ultra-radical tumor surgery, minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery (Da Vinci), functional disorders of the lower urinary tract, pediatric urology, stone therapy and andrology .

Hohenfellner is a member of several national and international professional societies and author or co-author of numerous scientific publications and book chapters as well as the editor of two urological scientific books. It has received scientific prizes from various national and international urological societies, including the European Thesis Award - the prize for the best habilitation thesis from the European Society for Urology - and the Maximilian-Nitze Prize - the highest scientific prize from the German Society for Urology.

Hohenfellner is active on a voluntary basis in various medical societies. In 2008/2009 he was President of the German Continence Society and in this role he organized the 21st annual congress. He works for the German Cancer Aid as a member of the specialist committee “Care Measures and Research” . Hohenfellner is the chairman of the European Urology Foundation Heidelberg (EFU), which is committed to tumor research, advanced training for doctors from emerging countries and third world countries and the corresponding direct care for patients. As an advocate of cooperation in prostate cancer research, Hohenfellner coined 2013 the first symposium "Prostate cancer research: challenges and opportunities".

Publications (selection)

  • JW Thüroff, M. Hohenfellner (Ed.): Reconstructive Surgery of the Lower Urinary Tract in Children. ISIS Medical Media, 1995, ISBN 1-899066-16-0 .
  • M. Hohenfellner, RA Santucci (Ed.): Emergencies in Urology. Springer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-48603-9 .

Awards

  • Miley B. Wesson Resident Essay Contest, Western Section, American Urological Association, Vancouver, 1991
  • Prize of the Forum Urodynamicum, Forum Urodynamicum, Mannheim, April 2-4, 1992
  • Jack Lapides Essay Contest (Grand Prize Award), American Urological Association, Washington, 1992
  • Maximilian Nitze Prize, German Society for Urology, Wiesbaden, 1993
  • EAU Thesis Award, European Association of Urology, Monte Carlo, 1995
  • Paul Mellin Memorial Prize, North Rhine-Westphalian Society for Urology, Münster, 1999
  • CE Alken Prize, Annual award meeting of the CE Alken prize winners, Düsseldorf, 1999
  • Werner Staehler Prize 2008, Southwest German Society for Urology, Heilbronn, 2008
  • Honorary Member of the New York Section of the American Society of Urology, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Cancer Aid Expert List, February 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Hohenfellner, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian urologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna