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Christiane Bruns

Christiane Bruns MD, PhD

GI Tumor and Endocrine Surgery, Vascular Surgery
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Prof. Dr. Christiane Bruns is the Director of the Department of General, Visceral, and Vascular Surgery Magdeburg. The newly appointed Professor of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery has taken on November 1, 2013, the office of Prof. Dr. Hans Lippert, who has been adopted by the end of October in retirement. Biography: Prof. Dr. Christiane Josephine Bruns, born in 1965, gained after her medical studies in Dusseldorf in 1993 their medical license and a doctorate in the same year. Your specialist training for surgery, started at the Department of General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Cologne, where they already have resident training (AiP) has worked before. From 1997, she completed a two-year research stay as a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Cancer Biology, University of Texas, Houston. With her ?? return, she began her residency training at the University Hospital of Cologne until 2001. A year later, Christiane habilitated Brunswick after a change to the Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich. In 2003 she was promoted to senior physician and two years later to the Chief Medical Director of oncological surgery. Also in 2005, she became the focus designation visceral surgery. Clinical internships led Prof. Bruns at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Toronto, and other renowned institutions in Italy and France. In 2009 her right to use the title was awarded Unscheduled professor and she became the first Chief Medical Director / Deputy Director of the Clinic office in Brussels, a W3-Professorship of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery at the Otto-von-Guericke University worked to appeal.

Her responsibilities included besides the OP coordination of Surgery at the Klinikum Grosshadern clinical and scientific management of the Pancreas Center of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. These early last year came even function as Deputy Director of the Cancer Center Munich at the LMU. Prof. Bruns has acquired many years of extensive experience in the entire surgical spectrum due to the versatility of their duties, including the large oncology and colorectal surgery, hepatobiliary surgery to transplantation surgery. Your surgical spectrum is completed by the widespread application of minimally invasive surgical techniques (keyhole technique). The clinical, as well as scientific focus of Prof. Bruns, is in the range of liver and pancreatic diseases. The range of scientific activities of Prof. Bruns is also very extensive. Together with their experimental research group she dedicates herself to cell and molecular biological studies on tumor angiogenesis, metastasis, tumor stem cells, and therapy resistance and based thereon development of targeted, individualized therapies for different cancers.

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