New Adjunct Professors

Professional background:

• 2008 Resident in advanced training in visceral surgery,
  Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery,
  University Hospital Zurich (Prof. P. A. Clavien)
• 2009 Passed the Swiss basic examination in surgery
• 2009-2010 Junior resident, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital
  Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Zurich
  (Prof. P. A. Clavien)
• 2010 Rotation Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich
• 2011-2014 Resident in advanced training in visceral surgery, Clinic
  and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and
  Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Bonn
  (Prof. J. C. Kalff)
• 2014 Specialist in visceral surgery, North Rhine Medical Association
• 2015 Investigator and participation/study director of clinical trials
  (Hephaistos Trial, EASE-SBS 1 Trial)
• 2016 Additional further training in “Proctology”, Medical Association
  North Rhine
• 02/2016 Specialist in further training “special visceral surgery”,
  North Rhine Medical Association
  Head of the interdisciplinary special consultation hour since 2015
  “Intestinal rehabilitation”
• 09/2017 Appointment as senior physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for
  General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
  University Hospital Bonn (Prof. J.C. Kalff), Team
  General and oncological surgery
• 2018-2019 Rotating senior physician Johanniter Clinics Bonn
  (Prof. A. Türler), minimally invasive colorectal surgery and
  colorectal surgery and robotics
• Since 2020 Senior physician in the Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic and
  Transplantation Surgery in the Clinic and Polyclinic for
  General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery,
  University Hospital Bonn
• 2021 Additional title “special visceral surgery”,
  North Rhine Medical Association
  Since 2021 Senior physician in the Colorectal Surgery and Proctology team
  in the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral,
  Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Bonn
• Since 2023 Senior Consultant at the Clinic for General, Visceral,
  Pediatric and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital RWTH
  Aachen (Clinic Director Prof. F. W. Vondran)
• 2024 Awarded the APL professorship of the Rheinische
  Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn

Main research interests:

• Intestinal failure/intestinal rehabilitation
• Pharmacological modification of the GI tract (GLP-2)
• Experimental transplantation
• OR 4.0, digital health, big data in surgery

Short personal introduction to gain for the faculty and statement of involvement in teaching and research:

Dr. von Websky has been a senior physician in the Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery since 2017 and has been a senior consultant at RWTH Aachen University Hospital since 2023. Since 2011, Dr. von Websky has established a nationally recognized special consultation for rare small bowel diseases through focused clinical research activities, which will be continued in cooperation with RWTH Aachen University. His scientific specialties are chronic intestinal failure/short bowel syndrome, but also chronic inflammatory bowel diseases and increasingly digital health solutions for the treatment of patients with chronic diseases as well as the digital and data-supported networking of new surgical systems.

Professional background:

• 07/91 - 04/98 Medical studies at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn
• 05/98 Start of internship and assistant doctor at the Waldbröl District Hospital in the Clinic for Anesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy
• 11/99 License to practice medicine
• 11/2000 Start of specialist training / OA representative at Bonn University Hospital in the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine

• 10/2005 DESA (Diploma of the European Society of Anesthesiology)

• 03/2006 Further training in special intensive care medicine at Bonn University Hospital in the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine

• 03/2007 Senior physician in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit in the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at Bonn University Hospital

Main research interests:

• Initial assessment systems in clinical acute and emergency medicine

• Handover process at the interface between rescue service and ZNA

• Brief personal introduction on the benefits for the faculty and presentation of integration into teaching and research.

Short personal introduction to gain for the faculty and statement of involvement in teaching and research:

Prof. Dr. med. Ingo Gräff is an experienced emergency physician who has built up and continuously developed clinical acute and emergency medicine at the UKB since 2009.

Since 2020, the two emergency centers (INZ / NNZ) with the two associated short-stay wards have been transferred to an independent Department of Clinical Acute and Emergency Medicine. At the same time, Prof. Gräff was appointed Director of the department.

The Department of Clinical Acute and Emergency Medicine treats around 45,000 emergency patients every year, of which around 30-35% become inpatients.

I always like to explain Clinical Acute and Emergency Medicine as follows: “The patient on the left, the in-depth specialist expertise of the individual departments on the right, and us in the middle,” says Prof. Gräff. It is also important to Prof. Gräff to mention the 15 years of cooperative and appreciative collaboration with the individual specialist departments.

Prof. Ingo Gräff was one of the first in North Rhine-Westphalia to obtain full authorization for further training (24 months) for the additional qualification “Clinical Acute and Emergency Medicine” from the North Rhine Medical Association. Since then, he has been regularly appointed as an examiner by the Medical Association and the UKB Board of Directors has subsequently established two further training positions for additional training in clinical acute and emergency medicine.

In teaching, the focus is on case-based, symptom-oriented learning in the context of clinical acute and emergency medicine. The elective Clinical Acute and Emergency Medicine, which has been offered by Prof. Gräff for several semesters and is very well received by students, is particularly worth mentioning here. The focus here is on the approach to emergency patients with their more or less pronounced symptoms. These include the priority-oriented approach according to the so-called cABCDE algorithm, emergency diagnostics, the recognition of so-called red flags and the actual emergency therapy. In extreme cases, the application of so-called life-saving interventions such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Prof. Gräff's research focuses on initial assessment, which is currently once again the focus of particular attention in the context of the reform of emergency care (Healthcare Further Development Act GVWG). One milestone was the first nationwide introduction of computer-assisted initial assessment at Bonn University Hospital and the validation of the German Manchester Triage System, which Prof. Gräff also habilitated on in 2017. Today, the MTS is the standard system in German emergency departments and meets the requirements of the Joint Federal Committee (GBA), to which his research results have made a significant contribution. As part of a big data study, Prof. Gräff is currently examining the collective of the last 10 years with over 350,000 emergency patients in order to further improve the validity of the system and investigate the influence of actual doctor contact time on mortality. Another focus of Prof. Gräff's research is the handover process at the interface between the ambulance service and the emergency room. There are plans to draw up an S2K guideline in cooperation with the German Society for Interdisciplinary Emergency and Acute Medicine (DGINA). Prof. Gräff is the editor of the book “1000 Fragen zur Zusatzweiterbildung Klinische Akut- und Notfallmedizin” and the magazine “notaufnahme up2date”.

“Clinical acute and emergency medicine will face enormous challenges in the coming years as part of the upcoming reform of emergency care (Emergency Act),” says Prof. Gräff. It is precisely here that he sees the need to further professionalize clinical acute and emergency medicine at the University Hospital Bonn.

Professional background:

• 03/2019: Senior Physician with Head of Department Abdominal and Urogenital Radiology, Central Radiology Institute, Cantonal Hospital of Graubünden, Chur
• 2018: Managing Senior Physician, Radiological University Clinic Bonn
• 2014: Senior physician, University Clinic of Radiology, Bonn
• 2010: Specialist in diagnostic radiology
• 2004: Assistant doctor, Radiological University Clinic Bonn
• 2002: Doctor in internship, Clinic and Polyclinic for Dermatology at the University of Bonn and Radiological University Clinic Bonn

Main research interests:

• Magnetic resonance imaging of the liver
• Abdominal imaging
• Urogenital imaging

Short personal introduction to gain for the faculty and statement of involvement in teaching and research:

I worked from June 1, 2003 to March 15, 2019, most recently as managing senior physician at the Radiological University Clinic Bonn. Since March 16, 2019, I have headed the Department of Abdominal and Urogenital Radiology at the Cantonal Hospital of Graubünden. I contribute my research focus to student teaching and the supervision of students at the Bonn Medical Faculty and in scientific collaborations with the University Clinic of Radiology. In addition, I have been a member of the board of the gastrointestinal and abdominal diagnostics working group of the German Radiological Society (DRG) for many years.

Medical and scientific professional activity:

• 9/2003 - 1/2008 Clinic of Nephrology and Hypertensiology, Charité Campus Buch.
• 2/2008 - 6/2010 Division of Inflammation Biology, La Jolla Institute, CA, USA
• 8/2010 - 12/2020 Center of Internal Medicine/Clinic of Nephrology and Hypertensiology, Hannover Medical School, since 4/2015 Senior Physician
• Since 1/2021 Head of Nephrology (Medical Clinic and Polyclinic 1), University Hospital Bonn, Germany
  Member, Excellence Cluster Immunosensation2

Short personal introduction to gain for the faculty and presentation of the involvement in teaching and research:

• Mapping of the field of nephrology as part of internal medicine in human and dental medicine teaching and science courses and postgraduate education and training.
• Clinical-experimental research in the field of nephrological inflammatory biology

Homepage:
https://nephrologie-ukbonn.de

Professional background:

• 1995 - 1999 Studies in Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen/Friedberg (now Technical University of Central Hesse).
• 1999 - to date Institute for Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine (IHT, Director: Prof. Dr. med. J. Oldenburg)
• 2000 - 2015 Head of the Department "Clinical Molecular Biology
• 2012 - to date "Technical Supervisor" of the division "HLA-Diagnostics
• 2014 - to date "Scientific Supervisor" of the area "Coagulation Diagnostics".

Main research interests:

• Development of new ligands and derived assay systems for the detection of activated coagulation factors.
• Targeted functional control of enzymes of the hemostasis system
• Development of new diagnostic assay systems
• Basic research in the field of primary and secondary hemostasis

Short personal introduction to gain for the faculty and statement of involvement in teaching and research:

Since graduating with a degree in Biotechnology, my scientific work has focused on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of blood clotting. A major focus is the development of new diagnostic test systems that can be used to detect a tendency to bleed or thrombosis. By applying combinatorial chemistry, DNA-based aptamers could be developed and characterized, which are now successfully used in diagnostics as the basic building block of a newly developed assay format (oligonucleotide-based enzyme capture assay). I am involved in the routine diagnostics of the Institute of Experimental Hematology and Transfusion Medicine as head of the coagulation laboratory. Since 2017, I have been active as a member of the doctoral committee of the Faculty of Medicine. I have been involved in student teaching since the beginning of my work at the IHT, contributing in particular my expertise on the coagulation and HLA system with the corresponding laboratory analytics.

Professional background:

• since 09/2021 -- Clinic Director, Clinic for Neurosurgery, BG Clinic Emergency Hospital Berlin
• 2019-2021 -- Deputy Clinic Director and Acting Senior Physician, Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn (Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vatter)
• 2016-2019 -- Senior doctor, Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn
• 2015 -- Specialist, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Bonn University Hospital
• 2012-2015 -- Assistant Doctor, Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn (Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vatter)

• 2008-2012 -- Assistant Doctor, Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main (Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Volker Seifert)

Research focus:

• Vascular neurosurgery (subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral artery aneurysms, intracerebral hemorrhage, cavernomas, arterio-venous malformations)
• Neurosurgical oncology (glioblastoma, brain metastases, spinal tumors)
• Neuro-traumatology (decompressive craniectomy, autologous cranioplasty, chronic subdural hematomas) 
  

Brief personal introduction on gains for faculty and outline of involvement in teaching and research:

During his work as a assistant and specialist at the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Bonn, Prof. Schuss was significantly involved in the establishment of the neurovascular working group there. The development and establishment of the neurovascular network Rhein-Sieg in the sense of a clinic network for the optimal treatment of patients with neurovascular diseases falls in this area of responsibility. After his habilitation with a clear neurovascular emphasis and his appointment as senior doctor, Prof. Schuss became head of the research group "Neurosurgical Oncology" and had a decisive influence on the continuation of patient-oriented, interdisciplinary cooperation. Together with the Section for Neurooncology (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Herrlinger / Priv.-Doz. Dr. Niklas Schäfer), the Clinic for Neuroradiology (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Radbruch) and the Clinic for Radiotherapy (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Giordano), Prof. Schuss succeeded - in addition to numerous scientific projects - in paving the way for a CIO-wide brain metastases registry project.  

Prof. Schuss has been appointed Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at BG Clinic Emergency Hospital Berlin in September 2021. In this position, he not only continues to be actively involved in student teaching at the University of Bonn or in the ongoing supervision of numerous medical doctoral students, but also in close and productive scientific exchange with the local Clinic for Neurosurgery headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vatter - and thus continues to remain a scientist at the University of Bonn.

Professional background:

• 2000-2006 -- Medical studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2007-2012 -- Specialist training and advanced training in ophthalmopathology (Prof. Dr. med. F. G. Holz)
• 09.2010-11.2011 -- DFG research fellowship with research stay in the ophthalmopathology laboratory of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA (Prof. Dr. med. H. E. Grossniklaus, MD, MBA)
• 2011-11 -- EBO-funded residency at the ophthalmopathology laboratory and ophthalmooncology clinic, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Prof. S. Heegaard, MD)
• since 2012 -- Head of the research group "ocular tumors
• 04.2012 -- Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (F.E.B.O.)
• 05.2012 -- Specialist accreditation for the field of ophthalmology
• 05.2012 -- Additional certificate in ophthalmopathology
• 05.2012-12.2015 -- Specialist / scientific. Assistant at the University Eye Hospital Bonn (Prof. Dr. med. F. G. Holz)
• 02.2016 -- Birth of her daughter
• since 08.2016 -- Functional senior doctor at the University Eye Hospital Bonn and deputy head of the ophthalmopathological laboratory
• 12.2017 -- Birth of her son
• since 09.2019 -- Senior physician at the University Eye Hospital Bonn

Research focus:

• Choroidal melanoma: epigenetic alterations and tumor microenvironment.
• Clinicopathologic correlation: issues related to ocular tumors, keratoconus, and corneal surgery
• Development of the eye during the fetal period

Brief personal introduction on gains for faculty and outline of involvement in teaching and research:

My clinical focus is on the conservative and surgical treatment of patients with tumors, eyelid malpositions and corneal diseases. In addition, I work clinically and scientifically in the field of ophthalmopathology, which has a long tradition in Germany but is now practiced at only a few university hospitals. With the subspecialization in the field of ocular development and clinical ophthalmopathological evaluation of fetal eyes, I have developed a unique selling point. This enables me not only to work on scientific questions concerning the development of the eye, but can also be helpful in pediatric pathological diagnostics.
After my return from a DFG-funded research fellowship in the USA, I established the research group "ocular tumors" with intra- and extramural third-party funding, which mainly focuses on the tumor microenvironment and epigentic changes in uveal melanoma.
My research activities are evidenced by numerous publications, including the first description of "Conjunctival stromal tumor (COST)" and "bilateral uveal melanoma in the setting of a BAP1 tumor predisposition syndrome".
In addition to the usual lectures, in order to meet the new requirements due to the pandemic situation and at the same time reach a larger audience, I have initiated a weekly ophthalmopathology lecture via Zoom. This is aimed at students and postgraduate trainees interested in ophthalmology.
My motivation arises from the desire to continuously improve clinical knowledge in eye medicine by linking ophthalmopathology and state-of-the-art methodology. In the future, I will continue to dedicate myself to my research projects and feel committed to my graduate students and undergraduates in a positive sense.

Professional background:

• 05.2005-01.2014 -- Advanced training in anesthesia
  Clinic and Polyclinic for Anesthesia and Operative Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Bonn
• 04.2008-12.2011 -- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Center for Perinatal Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University
• 06.2010-12.2011 -- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, The Ohio State University
• 02.2014-07.2015 -- Specialist in Anesthesiology 
  Clinic and Polyclinic for Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Bonn, Germany
• Since 08.2015 -- Senior doctor
  Clinic and Polyclinic for Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

Research focus:

• Anesthesia in critically ill patients
• Cardiomyocyte contractility disorders
• Clinical Studies Perioperative Medicine
• The focus of my research activities is in the experimental field on the prevention of cardiopulmonary pathologies and in the clinical field on studies for the
• improvement of the postoperative outcome.
  
  

Professional background:

• Study of psychology (1992-1999 in Gießen and Bonn)
• Study of human medicine in Bonn (1995-2002)
• Assistant doctor in the Clinic for Neurology (2003-2005), University Hospital Bonn (Head: Prof. Klockgether)
• Assistant doctor in the Clinic for Epileptology (2005-2012), University Hospital Bonn (Head: Prof. Elger)
• Research associate in the AG NeuroCognition / NeuroImaging, Life & Brain GmbH (Head: Prof. Weber)
• Assistant doctor and senior doctor (from 2015) at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (2012-2016), University Hospital Bonn (Head: Prof. Maier).
• Since 2015 head of the memory outpatient clinic
• Since 2016 senior doctor in Clinic for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Gerontopsychiatry, Section of Gerontopsychiatry (Head: Prof. Schneider)
  
  

Research focus:

• Neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and structural correlates of neurodegenerative dementias.
• Characterization of rare dementia syndromes (fronto-temporal dementias, atypical syndromes in Alzheimer's disease)

Previous research focus areas ( in some of which I am still involved):

Clinical Neuropsychology:

• Cognitive performance and quality of life in brain tumor patients.
• Assessment of cognitive therapy consequences in neurological diseases

Cognitive Neuroscience:

• Task and material specificity in episodic long-term memory.
• Functional imaging of the human reward system
• Neurobiological bases of social preferences
  
  

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

My entire clinical and scientific activity to date has focused on cognitive functions and their disorders in neurological, psychiatric and systemic diseases. More or less inevitably, I have therefore been involved for many years in the field of those diseases whose core symptom is a disturbance of cognition: dementias and their various causes. For the treatment and research of these diseases, the UKB with its interdisciplinary, neurological-psychiatric led Clinic for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Gerontopsychiatry and the immediate proximity to the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases offers an extraordinary infrastructure. In order to bridge the gap between basic scientific knowledge and clinical application, it is necessary to combine profound clinical experience with sound scientific and methodological skills. I try to fulfill this task and always try to train and inspire young junior staff for this path.

As an adjunct lecturer in geriatric psychiatry, I also try to teach what I consider to be the rather underrepresented topics of dementia and delirium in the medical curriculum, which are highly relevant to all practicing practitioners.

Research focus:

• Anxiety disorders (panic disorder, social anxiety disorder): Mechanisms of action of psychotherapy, genetics, psychophysiology, and psychoneuroendocrinology.
• Somatoform disorders: Artificial intelligence in differential diagnosis to rare disorders; multimodal treatment for chronic pain and chronic pruritus.
• Psycho-oncology: improving quality of life with innovative therapies in nuclear medicine and radiology; multimodal pain management in palliative care.
  
  

Research focus:

• Supportive psychotherapy and drug treatment in psychooncology
• Psychotherapy of patients with anxiety disorders, with somatoform disorders and with post-traumatic stress disorders

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

In recent years, I have been able to initiate and/or carry out various interdisciplinary projects with other clinics or departments at the UKB (e.g. radiology, nuclear medicine, palliative medicine, anesthesiology, dermatology, internal medicine, human genetics, the Center for Rare Diseases). In particular, the opportunity to broaden one's own perspective and to bring a psychosomatic perspective to other projects/specialties was an enriching challenge.

I would like to particularly highlight:
 - the Social Phobia Research project in collaboration with the Institute of Human Genetics Bonn as well as the Center for Human Genetics Marburg, in which we have been able to collect clinical and genetic data from over 1000 sufferers of social anxiety disorder since 2012.
 - the close cooperation with the Center for Rare Diseases, which has resulted in a textbook on rare diseases in addition to a large number of scientific publications.
 - the cooperation with radiology and nuclear medicine on the aspects of pain and quality of life in the context of innovative therapeutic procedures for oncological diseases (e.g. new radionuclide therapies, HIFU).

In teaching at the UKB within the framework of the internship and the lecture Psychosomatic Medicine, the basic course Clinical Examination as well as in the cross-sectional area Pain, my focus is on the disorders chronic pain/somatoform disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders and doctor-patient communication. It is my concern to introduce the students to a psychosomatic understanding of illness. This should include both the knowledge of neurobiological causes and treatments of diseases, as well as the knowledge of the close link between physical and psychological symptoms, so that in the medical approach the suffering person is not lost from view.

Professional background:

• 1980-1987 -- Study of human medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany
• 1988-1996 -- Further training in gynecology and obstetrics in Germany, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
• 1996-2004 -- Work experience in Zimbabwe, Philippines, Vietnam and Germany
• 1998 -- M.Sc. in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine (UCL, London)
• 2004-2009 -- Senior Doctor, Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany
• from 2008 -- Head, Department of Obstetrics
• 2008 -- Optional further training in 'Special obstetrics and perinatal medicine'.
• 2009 -- DEGUM level II recognition for the field of gynecology and obstetrics
• 2009-2011 -- Professional activity in China
• Since 2011 -- Senior Doctor, Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany
• Since 2013 -- CRM Instructor
• Since 2017 -- Lecturer, Master Program Global Health ('Risk Management and Hygiene Policies') of the UKB in association with the 'Institute for Environment and Human Security' of the United Nations University, topic 'Maternal Health'.
• until 2018 -- Head, Obstetrics Departmentv

Research focus:

• Genetics of congenital malformations: from 2008, establishment of a fetal biobank. Cooperation with various UKB-internal and other research institutions.
• Fetomaternal physiology: neurohormones and mode of birth, lifestyle and pregnancy. Cooperation with the DSH Cologne
• Risk-adapted care concepts for pregnant women: Establishment of the "Maternal Medicine" department, implementation and evaluation of the midwife delivery room care concept.

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

The gain of the faculty is the first establishment of the subject "Maternal Medicine" in Germany. The focus is on high-risk pregnancies with pre-existing diseases. Especially for heart diseases, Prof Merz has established a close clinical and scientific collaboration with the clinics of the Heart Center at the UK Bonn. She is integrated in various research networks of the UK Bonn and its partners in the context of molecular genetic investigation of congenital malformations. Furthermore, she is involved in several national and international studies.
Prof. Merz is actively involved in teaching. She has initiated the seminar "Pregnancy in the presence of pre-existing conditions", is a lecturer in the Master's program in Global Health, and conducts clinical rounds.

Professional background:

• 10.1997-03.2002 Assistant Doctor at the Center for Pediatrics, Uludag University, Bursa/Turkey (Prof. Dr. Ildirim)
• 03.2002-07.2002 Resident in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Neonatology, at the Center for Pediatrics, Uludag University, Bursa/Turkey (Prof. Dr. Ildirim)
• 07.2002-06.2003 Senior Doctor for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in the Department of Neonatology, at the Center for Pediatrics of Uludag University, Bursa/Turkey (Prof. Dr. Ildirim)
• 01.2004-06.2004 Visiting Doctor in the Department of Neonatology at the Center for Pediatrics, University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bartmann)
• 07.2004-12.2004 Visiting Doctor in the Department of Pediatric Surgery at Asklepios Children's Hospital Sankt Augustin (H. Birkhold) (mandatory rotation during the adaptation period in Germany)
• 01.2005-04.2007 Assistant Doctor in the Department of Neonatology at the Center for Pediatrics at the University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bartmann)
• 04.2007-12.2008 Specialist in the Department of Neonatology at the Center for Pediatrics of the University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bartmann)
• 12.2008-04.2014 Senior doctor in the Department of Neonatology at the University Children's Hospital in Bonn (Prof. Dr. Dr. Bartmann)
• 04.2014-current Senior doctor in the University Children's Hospital Bonn, Department of Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine(Prof. Dr. Dr. Bartmann/Prof. Dr. A. Müller)

Research focus:

• Physiology and pathophysiology of melatonin metabolism in premature and neonatal infants and pediatric intensive care patients.
• Effect of biodynamic lighting
• Melatonin status in neonates and pediatric intensive care patients
• Pathophysiology of intestinal integrity and new therapeutic approaches of intestinal permiability disorder in premature and newborn infants
• Necrotizing enterocolitis
• Biomarkers of gastrointestinal injury
• Abdominal wall defects
• Gastroschisis
• Omphalocele
• Fetal Nutrition
• Enteral nutrition in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units
  
  

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

Prof. Dr. Soyhan Bağcı studied in Bursa (Turkey) and graduated with his license to practice medicine in 1997. He then completed his residency and doctorate, also in Turkey. In 2004, he moved to Germany and had to complete the pediatric residency again here, as well as the focus training in neonatology. In 2008, he was appointed senior doctor in the Department of Neonatology under the direction of Prof. Bartmann. With the beginning of his work at the University Hospital Bonn, he laid the foundation for his scientific achievements especially in the field of research of melatonin status in neonates and pediatric intensive care patients, received his PhD again in 2010 and habilitated here at the University Hospital Bonn in 2013.

In recent years, he has expanded his field of research to include the influence of biodynamic light in the context of melatonin and oxidative stress on patients in an inpatient setting. As a result, on his initiative, his research findings on the circadian (melatonin) rhythm could be implemented in the project "Parent-Child Center (ELKI) with Biodynamic Lighting" at Bonn University Hospital.

Within the Department of Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Prof. Dr. Bağcı heads the neonatology laboratory as well as the area of "clinical trials".

Professional background:

• 1991-1997 -- Study of human medicine at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, the University of Oxford and the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg 1991-1997. Doctorate 1998
• 1998-1999 -- Internship at the Surgical University Hospital of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• 1999-2001 -- Assistant doctor at the Surgical University Hospital of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2002-2006 -- Assistant doctor at the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Bonn University
• 2006-2010 -- Specialist at the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Bonn
• 2010-2017 -- Senior doctor of the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Bonn
• 2017-2019 -- Deputy managing senior doctor of the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Bonn
• 02/2019-12/2019 -- Senior doctor in charge of the Clinic and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Bonn
• Since 01/2020 -- Chief of the Department of Surgery 1 at St.-Elisabeth-Hospital Leipzig, academic teaching hospital
• 2020 -- Graduation as MHBA at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg October 2020

Research focus:

Clinical

• Mesenteric ischemia and abdominal vascular disease,
• Possibilities and value of biological and alloplastic hernia repair,
• Oncological surgery of endocrine organs,
• Oncological surgery of the gastrointestinal tract (MIS, robotics),
• Influence of chemo- and immunotherapy on intestinal anastomosis healing.

Experimental

• Role of the adaptive and innate immune system in the development of postoperative intestinal atony (postoperative ileus) and gastrointestinal field effects,
• Implementation of a new biomarker for the course and formation of postoperative intestinal atony.

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

A gain for the medical faculty exists not only due to the above mentioned research focus, my continued teaching in Bonn, the continuous supervision of PhD students from Bonn and Leipzig, but also due to my new function as chief doctor of one of the eight nationwide DGAV-certified reference centers for hernia surgery (approx. 700 - 800 hernia interventions/year) and at the same time a DGAV-certified competence center for coloproctology (at least 100 colorectal surgical interventions/year), whereby very large annual patient numbers are reached and the medical processes are subjected to a high quality standard. In addition, I have a surgical robot in my department. Through this, the process and outcome quality of robotically assisted procedures in hernia and colorectal surgery from the department for which I am responsible can be scientifically evaluated complementary to the process and outcome quality of robotically assisted procedures in colorectal, pancreas and esophageal surgery at the Surgical University Hospital Bonn through the registers and clinical studies on this topic that are kept, which will lead to a larger data pool for valid statistical analyses or clinical studies for the robotic procedures that are not yet widespread.
Based on my basic science work on postoperative intestinal pathophysiology, close and synergistic collaborations continue to occur, including with the Surgical Research Section and the Surgical Study Center.
In addition to the extensive courses offered by the Department of Surgery, in which I continue to participate (block clerkship, seminars, main lecture, cross section), I also offer ultrasound courses for medical students.
Due to my many years of employment at the UKB and the continued close networking as well as corresponding agreements with the current employer, the continuation of the research projects and the teaching of the courses are guaranteed.

Professional background:
Prof. Herberg studied human medicine at the Ruhr University in Bochum and completed her practical year at the Universities of London, Ontario (Canada), Dunedin (New Zealand) and Ohio (USA). After working as an assistant doctor in clinical chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum and in pediatrics at the Municipal Children's Hospital in Cologne, she moved to Bonn in 1990. There she received her specialist qualification in pediatrics and adolescent medicine in 1995 and her specialization in pediatric cardiology in 1999. This was followed by additional qualifications in intensive care medicine, cardiology for adults with congenital heart defects (EMAH in German) and interventional radiology. Since 1999, she has been senior physician and deputy to the medical director of pediatric cardiology. Since 2020, Prof. Herberg has headed the Perinatal Cardiology Section.
Prof. Herberg is, among other things, a member of the DEGUM with DEGUM III qualification, currently on the board of the DGPK, a member of the DGK and was, in addition, head of the Fetal Working Group of the AEPC.

Research focus:

• 3D echocardiography, cardiac functional analysis using innovative measurement methods, circulation simulation
• Interdisciplinary diagnostics and therapy of fetuses with cardiac diseases in close cooperation with the Dept. of Prenatal diagnostics (e.g. critical aortic stenosis, fetal cardiac catheter interventions, arrhythmias, feto-fetal transfusion syndrome) and their peri- and postnatal therapy
• Fontan circulation and height simulation
  
  

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

The gain for the faculty is the strengthening of the field of perinatal cardiology, which is closely related to prenatal diagnostics and cardiovascular research.  Through her longitudinal research of cardiovascular diseases from the fetal period to adulthood (including as principal investigator in Germany for the "FAST" trial, the registries for long-QT patients and fetal heart valve disruption), Prof. Herberg is closely networked internationally and gives international visibility to the interdisciplinary work in the focus area of perinatal cardiology.  She strengthens Bonn as a location for cardiac research and as an interdisciplinary ultrasound center of the DEGUM through her work on 3D echocardiography, cardiac function diagnostics and circulation simulation. Prof. Herberg is actively involved in teaching (clinical teaching, ultrasound seminars and intensive care seminars, senior mentoring, doctoral seminars) and in continuing education for physicians (training curriculum in pediatric cardiology, echo seminars). Prof. Herberg is a member of the ethics committee of the UKB.

Professional background:

• June 1998: Start of specialist post-graduate training at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine
• May 2004: Specialist in anesthesiology
• August 2004 - December 2008: Research stay at the National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA) incl. DFG fellowship abroad
• June 2011: Habilitation
• November 2011: Additional title "Special Intensive Care Medicine
• June 2012: Appointment as senior doctor
• October 2016: Appointment as managing senior doctor
• November 2018: Additional title "Special Pain Therapy
• June 2020: Appointment as Deputy Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine
• August 2020: Award of the adjunct professorship
  
  

Research focus:

• Detection and identification of bacterial DNA in vitro and from various biological fluids in septic patients.
• Mechanisms of action of stimulatory CpG oligonucleotides and suppressive oligonucleotides on immune cells.
• Identification and bioinformatic analysis of regulatory networks and signaling cascades induced by Toll-like receptor ligands and experimental validation in knock-out animals
• Gene expression analyses using microarrays to study inflammatory regulation
• Studies on capillary leak syndrome during cytoreductive surgery for advanced ovarian cancer
• Clinical research projects with a focus on pain research
  
  

Gain/involvement in the Bonn Medical School:

The main research areas outlined above are in part closely linked to other working groups at the UKB and I regularly supervise PhD students as part of my research projects. In addition to clinical and research work, I have been involved in teaching for many years. This includes the main lecture in anesthesiology as well as conducting seminars. Furthermore, I take care of the supervision of the PJ students. The internal training of our staff is also very important to me. Among other things, I organize and moderate weekly training sessions for colleagues that are certified by the North Rhine Medical Association. As a CRM simulation instructor, I am actively involved in the organization and implementation of various workshops and the CRM training "Interdisciplinary Obstetric Emergency Training".
For many years, I have also been involved in the committees of the medical faculty. Since 2013, I have been active as a member of the Habilitation Commission of the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn, since 2014 as a member of the BONFOR Commission on Intramural Research Funding, and since 2018 as a member of the Doctoral Commission.
I am very happy to be able to continue my scientific activities continuously and intensively as well as to be active for student teaching at the university.