Markus W. Büchler

Markus Wolfgang Büchler (born July 22, 1955 in Saarlouis ) is a German surgeon and university professor.

Life

Markus W. Büchler graduated from high school in 1974 at the Lender home school in Sasbach . He studied medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (1974–1979) and the Free University Berlin (1979/80), where he received his license to practice medicine in 1980. In 1980 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Büchler completed his training in surgery at the University of Ulm , where he completed his habilitation in 1987 . He became Deputy Clinic Director in Ulm in 1991 and received a C 2 professorship . In 1993 Büchler became a professor at the Clinic for Visceral and Transplant Surgery at the Inselspital at the University of Bern . This was followed in 1996 by a visiting professorship at the Yale School of Medicine . In June 2000 he received a call to the Ulm chair for general and visceral surgery, which he did not follow. He returned to Germany in 2001 and accepted the call to the Heidelberg chair for surgery. Since then, Büchler has been Director of the Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at the University of Heidelberg and, since March 2003, Executive Medical Director of the Surgical University Clinic in Heidelberg. In addition, since 2005 he has been chief surgeon at the Salem Hospital in Heidelberg, since 2009 chief physician in general and visceral surgery at the GRN-Klinik Sinsheim, since 2012 chief physician in general and visceral surgery at GRN-Klinik Eberbach and since 2013 medical director of general and visceral surgery Visceral surgery at the Bergstrasse district hospital in Heppenheim. He was President of the German Society for Surgery (2012), the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (2011) and other specialist societies. He has been editor-in-chief of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery since 2010 . He is married to Hedwig Maria Breunig-Büchler and has four children.

Work areas

Markus W. Büchler is a surgical expert for diseases of the internal organs, especially for diseases of the abdominal organs, especially the pancreas . His surgical focus is on hepatobiliary, colorectal, and especially pancreatic surgery and transplant surgery. As a surgeon, he has developed new surgical methods himself and, with his colleagues in Heidelberg, performs more than 800 pancreatic operations per year. His main research areas are translational medicine, oncological surgery and the development of new surgical techniques. He is co-author of more than 2500 publications , the focus of which is primarily on gastrointestinal cancers, pancreatic diseases and clinical surgical issues.

Honors

Büchler received, among other things, the Ludwig Rehn Prize of the Association of Middle Rhine Surgeons (1987), the Prize of the International Association of Pancreatology (1988 and 1990), the Research Prize of the Swiss Society for Surgery (1995), the Fritz Linder Prize of the Germans Society for Surgery (1999), the Max Siurala Prize of the Finnish Society of Gastroenterology (2005), the Gimbernat Prize, Catalan Society of Surgery (2005), the Hippocrates Prize of the Hellenic Society of Internal Medicine (2006), the Amundsen Medal of the Institute for Surgical Research Oslo (2013), the Rudolf Zenker Prize of the German Society for Surgery (2014) and the Karl Heinrich Bauer Prize of the German Society for Surgery (2018). In 2016 he was appointed Senator of the German Society for Surgery and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Pancreatic Club . He is an honorary member of numerous professional societies, including the Royal Society of Medicine of England since 1998, the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 2009, the American Surgical Association since 2010 and the American College of Surgeons since 2013 . In 2009 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He received honorary doctorates from universities in Cluj-Napoca , Arad (Romania) , Belgrade and Minsk , from Vilnius University , Nanjing Medical University and the University of Pécs . He received honorary professorships in Nanjing at the Railway Medical College, Southeast University and Medical University as well as in Wuhan , Montevideo and Prague .

Works

• Pancreatic diseases: acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis, tumors of the pancreas. Karger 2004, ISBN 3-8055-7460-6 .
• Chronic pancreatitis. Wiley-Blackwell 2002, ISBN 0-632-06399-8 .

See also

• List of members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus W. Büchler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Markus W. Büchler (Heidelberg University Hospital)
• Publications on PubMed
• Newly elected members of the Leopoldina (2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Jaschinski: Interview with Prof. Markus Büchler . In: Heidoskop . No. 4 , 2011, p. 51–57 ( heidoskop.de [PDF]).
2. ↑ Dissertation: Structural analysis of Meckel's diverticulum with special consideration of the endocrine cells
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The importance of the gastrointestinal tract for the control of growth and function of the exocrine pancreas an animal study .
4. ↑ Member entry by Markus W. Büchler (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 2, 2016.