Biography - Markus W. Büchler, MD

Markus W. Büchler, MD

Markus Büchler is Professor of Surgery at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin and was trained in surgery at the Department of Surgery, University of Ulm, where he was appointed a Consultant Surgeon in 1987 and Vice Chairman in 1991. In 1992, Markus Büchler became Chairman and Professor of Surgery of the Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at the Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland. From Switzerland he moved back to Germany in 2001 where he became Professor and Chair of the Department of General, Trauma, and Visceral Surgery (including Transplantation Surgery) at the University of Heidelberg. Recently, he was also appointed Chairman of the Surgical Unit of the Salem-Hospital in Heidelberg, a community hospital which closely cooperates with the Heidelberg university.

Professor Büchler is a specialist in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery (HPB) and, in particular, pancreatic surgery. He has a substantial curriculum of scientific publications in the field of HPB diseases, especially in translational research of pancreatic cancer.

He is Editor or member of the Editorial Boards of many leading journals in general and gastrointestinal surgery, translational and molecular research in pancreatology and other gastrointestinal diseases, such as Annals of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery. Digestive Surgery (Editor), Pancreas, Langenbeck's Archive of Surgery (Editor), HPB, and Surgery.