Wolfram Trudo Knoefel

Wolfram Trudo Knoefel (* 1962 in Tübingen ) is a German surgeon. Since 2003 he has held the chair for general and visceral surgery at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and director of Surgical Clinic A (general, visceral, thoracic and pediatric surgery) at the University Hospital Düsseldorf. 

Career

Knoefel studied medicine at the University of Hamburg, the Université de Lausanne , the Harvard Medical School / Boston and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. After obtaining his license to practice medicine, Knoefel worked at the Surgical Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU), the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Harvard Medical School and the Surgical Clinic of the Eppendorf University Medical Center in Hamburg. In 1993 he made his surgery specialist. In 1996 he completed his habilitation on the subject of "Microcirculation disorders in acute inflammation of the pancreas". In 2003, Knoefel was appointed to the chair for general and visceral surgery at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Knoefel has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2019 .

Special areas and treatment focuses

Knoefel is a specialist in oncological surgery of the abdomen, thorax and endocrine organs. The main focus of his treatment is the surgical treatment of malignant tumors of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas, thyroid, lungs and rectum.

Scientific achievements

Knoefel and his team do research and a. on the following focal points: tumor cell dissemination and metastasis, minimal residual systemic disease in malignant tumors of the thorax and abdomen, liver regeneration, stem cell research, preconditioning, ischemia and reperfusion of the liver, signaling pathways for inflammation and apoptosis in tumors, "targeted therapy" in neuroendocrine tumors, hepatocellular tumors - Molecular pathogenesis, classification and therapy, soft tissue sarcoma - Molecular pathogenesis, classification and therapy.

Offices and memberships

Knoefel is a member of numerous national and international professional societies - including the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the American College of Surgeons, the Transplantation Society, the American Gastroenterological Association, the Society of Pelvic Surgeons, the Association Française de Chirurgie, the American Pancreatic Association , the German Society for Thoracic Surgery, the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery and the German Society for Surgery.

Publications

Knoefel has published over 300 original scientific papers in international journals.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Knoefel on the website of the University of Düsseldorf. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 22, 2016 ; accessed on November 1, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Prof. Knoefel at Ask-the-Professor. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 22, 2016 ; Retrieved November 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ PubMed. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .