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I. Department of Internal Medicine

Medical Director: Prof. Dr. Ansgar W. Lohse
Head Senior Physician: PD Dr. Christoph Schramm
Director of Nursing: Alexander Baaß
Managing Director: Dr. Michael Moormann
Head of Infectology Section and Bernhard-Nocht Tropical Medicine Unit: Prof. Dr. Gerd Burchard

The Center

Our team of doctors and nurses is very experienced in the treatment of gastrointestinal, hepatic and pancreatic disease, infectious and tropical disease and tumor therapy. Close cooperation with the Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery Department enables us to ensure the highest level of patient care before and after liver transplants. In the Treatment Center for Highly Contagious Disease (BZHI) we care for patients with rare contagious diseases. To maintain the high standard, we continuously evaluate and update our in-house procedures within a quality management system.

Clinics

One of our specialties is the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C. We also offer a special clinic for autoimmune liver disease as well as tumors of the liver and bile duct. The department is a center for patients with liver cirrhosis and associated treatment options including TIPS placement. Other specialties are tropical and infectious disease, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, neuroendocrine tumors and pancreatic disease.

Research

Through our research we want to better understand the development and course of major diseases of the liver and gastro-intestinal tract and that way find even more effective therapies. Our research interests include viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease and liver and pancreatic cancer. We are collaborating with the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine on research on infectious diseases like malaria.

Facts and figures

Our center runs the largest hepatitis clinic and the only special clinic for autoimmune liver disease in Germany. Thanks to the BZHI we are one of the five treatment centers in Germany able to provide special care for patients with life-threatening, very contagious infections. We are especially skilled in the mini-laparoscopy technique that we developed as well as in TIPS placement.

Center statistics (in 2007)

Our Center has 60 fulltime employees on the nursing staff and 39 doctors working fulltime.