Karl-hermann Fuchs MD

Karl-Hermann Fuchs, MD is the medical director of the Agaplesion Markus Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and the chief of surgery of the Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Fuchs is a past president (2011 – 2013) of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) and internationally renowned for his expertise in gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery.

He began his medical career in 1979 as a conscripted doctor in the German army. At the University of Kiel, he completed his thesis and received the Assistant Professor title in 1989. In 1991, Dr. Fuchs joined the University of Würzburg, where he became a Professor of Surgery in 1994 and served as a deputy director until joining the Agaplesion Markus Hospital in 2003 as chief of surgery of the Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Fuchs has been consulting for Fortimedix Surgical in the field of colorectal surgery since 2015 where, under his leadership and guidance, developments for a less invasive solution for transanal colon resection (TaCR) continue. Successful pre-clinical and clinical case series have been performed, resulting in podium presentations at leading conferences, including SAGES, EAES, NOSCAR, and D-NOTES.