Prof. Dr. med. habil Prof. h.c. Matthias Birth
Medical Director and Chief Surgeon at Helios Hanseklinikum Stralsund
Specialist fields (in extracts)
- in particular: complex tumor surgery, hepato-biliary and pancreatic surgery including interventional techniques (RFA, microwave, irreversible electroporation)
- Entire spectrum of visceral surgery and oncological surgery
- Colorectal surgery including laparoscopic procedures and proctology
- minimally invasive surgery of all abdominal organs
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
| 9/1986 - 9/1992
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Medical Studies, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald,
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| 1992
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Practical year, Grimmen District Hospital
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| 9/1992 - 1993
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Internship, Surgical Clinic, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald
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| 1 - 2/1994
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Doctor in practice, I. Surgical Clinic for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Diakoniehospital, Rotenburg/W. Hospital for specialized care, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Göttingen
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| 3/1994 -10/98
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Resident, I. Surgical Clinic for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Diakoniehospital Rotenburg/Wümme
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| 4/1995 - 8/1995
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Research and clinical fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Department of Surgery / Beverly Hills / U.S.A (Prof. Edward Phillips) Internship, Lichtenstein Hernia Institute, Los Angeles (Prof. Parviz Amid, M.D. F.A.C.S.) |
| 11/1998
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Research assistant, Surgical Clinic, Medical University of Lübeck
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| 12/1998
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Specialist in surgery |
| 5/1999
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Senior consultant
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| 5/2001
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Senior physician
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| 3/2002
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Acquisition of subspecialization "Visceral Surgery"; Head of the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Working Group |
| 5/2003
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Surgical Director of the Interdisciplinary Transplant Center
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| 3/2004
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Senior Consultant and Deputy Director, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck Campus
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| since 10/2004
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Chief Physician, Clinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Hanse-Hospital Stralsund |
| since 1/2011
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Medical Director, Hanse-Hospital Stralsund
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| 10/2014 - 05/2015
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Continuing education, Harvard Business School, Boston, Course „Management in Health Care Delivery“ |
Certification
Prizes and scholarships
- 1997 Elise Averdieck Award ("Evaluation of intraoperative bile duct diagnostics in the context of minimally invasive surgery")
- 1998 Scholarship from the Research and Study Foundation of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons ("Bile duct injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy and their reconstruction.")
- 2001 2 prizes of the foundation "Deutsche Buchkunst" for "Viszeralchirurgische Sonographie" (publisher))
- 2002 Dr. Günter Schaller Innovation Award of the CAES ("Interventions under Virtual Guidance")
- 2002 Scholarship from the Günther Haenisch Research and Study Foundation of the Association of Northwest German Surgeons ("Clinical and experimental evaluation of radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors")
- 2003 Felicien Steichen Prize of the German Society of Surgery: "Vascular Closure Staples - A new Technique for Biliary Reconstruction." 120th Congress of the DGfCh
- 2003 DGfCh Video Film Prize: "Intraoperative online navigation of parenchymal transection - a new dimension in liver surgery?" 120th DGfCh Congress
Contributions
- 62 original and review articles
- 66 published abstracts, 2 thematic journals as editor, 78 book contributions and chapters,
- 3 books as editor,
- 14 educational and training films,
- approx. 190 lectures
Extra information
Further professional and scientific activities after habilitation
- Seminar leader (DEGUM Level III) of the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
- Lecturer and tutor at
o International Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery (IRCAD) Strasbourg/France (minimally invasive surgery in general, local ablative tumor therapy, hepatobiliary surgery)
o Aesculapium Tuttlingen (laparoscopic hernia surgery)
- Regular "Laparoscopic colorectal surgery" team meetings at Lübeck University Hospital
- Workshops on surgical, locally ablative tumor therapy at the German Radiology Congress, the Congress of the German Society for Visceral Surgery and the three-country meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
- Member of the specialist committee "Visceral Surgery" of the ÄK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Member of the "Medicine" commission of the German Hospital Federation
- Member of the Board of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Hospital Association
Memberships
- German Society for Surgery (DGCh)
- German Society for Visceral Surgery (DGVC)
- Surgical Consortium for Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIC)
- Association of Northwest German Surgeons
- Surgical Association for Oncology (CAO)
- European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
- Working Group for Liver-Pancreas-Gallbladder Surgery of the German Society for Visceral Surgery (AGLPG)
- German Chapter der European Hepato-Pancreato - Biliary Association (EHPBA)
- International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA)
- Interdisciplinary working group on liver metastases and tumors (ALM)
- German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM)
- Surgical Association for Endoscopy and Sonography (CAES)
- Medical Society of Lübeck
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