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Jörg Kleeff

USERN Advisory Board
Professor Jorg Kleeff, MD, FACS, FRCS is Chair of Visceral Surgery at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Department of Visceral, Vascular and Endocrine Surgery at the University Hospital Halle (Saale), Germany. Prof. Kleeff started his scientific career 1997 as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California in Irvine, USA under the guidance of Prof. Murray Korc. Following these two years of research work, he started his clinical training with Prof. Markus Büchler at the Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland. From 2001 to 2007 he worked at the Department of Surgery at the University of Heidelberg and from 2007 to 2015 at the Department of Surgery, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. From 2015-2016 he worked as a Consultant in Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Honorary Professor at the Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK. Prof. Kleeff has published more than 230 peer-reviewed articles (h-index: 56) in internationally recognized medical journals as well as over 150 review articles and book chapters. His clinical work focuses on oncological surgery of the hepato-pancreato-biliary system as well as of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Prof. Kleeff has given lectures at a number of international meetings and is member of different societies like the IHPBA, the Society of Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA), and European Surgical Association (ESA) among others.





Professional experience



University of Liverpool

February 2016 - January 2021

Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Professor



Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

October 2015 - December 2016

Department of Surgery

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Conultant in HPB and General Surgery



Tufts University

October 2007 - September 2017

School of Medicine

Boston, United States

Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor



Technische Universität München

July 2007 - September 2015

Clinic and Polyclinic for Surgery

München, Germany

Professor (Associate)



Universität Heidelberg

October 2001 - June 2007

Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery

Heidelberg, Germany

Medical Doctor



Universität Bern

March 1999 - September 2001

University Clinic for Visceral Surgery and Medicine

Bern, Switzerland

Medical Doctor



Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern

March 1999 - September 2001

Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine

Bern, Switzerland

Resident



University of California, Irvine

February 1997 - February 1999

Department of Medicine

Irvine

PostDoc Position








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