Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Schaser is an expert in spinal column surgery
and tumor surgery in Dresden. After studying at the University of
Erlangen–Nuremberg, he obtained his medical license and further specialized in
orthopedics and trauma surgery. He has an impressive career history, including
positions as a Senior Resident at the Humboldt University of Berlin and an
Associate Consultant at University Hospital Charite. He currently serves as
the Medical Director of the Department of Orthopedics at University Hospital
Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden. His research interests include intervertebral disc
surgery, spinal stabilizations, spinal corrections, spinal tumor extirpations,
and the treatment of spinal inflammations.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Weitz is a professor at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus,
Dresden. He holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Management
from the University of Heidelberg. He was trained at the Heidelberg University
Surgical Clinic and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His
clinical focus is on the treatment of various diseases of the digestive system
(esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum, pancreas, bile, and liver) and
sarcomas, with a focus on tumor surgery, transplant surgery, and the use of
gentle surgical techniques. His area of expertise also includes surgery for
chronic inflammatory bowel diseases and surgery of internal glands. He currently serves as
the Medical Director of the Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at University Hospital
Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden.
Dr. Johanna Kirchberg is a senior physician in the Clinic for Visceral, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital of the TU Dresden. She holds a Doctorate from the Neurological University Hospital Bochum–Langendreer. She is a member of the ESSO, European Society of Surgical Oncology; the German Society for Surgery (DGCH); and the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV). Her research interests include minimally invasive visceral surgery, including robotic surgery, oncological surgery, sarcoma surgery, and clinical studies on liver surgery.
Dr. Johannes Fritzmann is the first senior physician in the clinic and polyclinic for visceral, thoracic, and vascular surgery at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, of the TU Dresden. He holds a Doctorate from the Clinic for General, Visceral, Vascular, and Thoracic Surgery at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His research interests include surgical oncology, colorectal carcinoma, signal transduction in cancer development, and metastasis.
Prof. Dr. Christian Reeps is a vascular surgeon at Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Dresden. He
graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, earned his PhD from Ulm
University, in Germany, and completed an internship at the Clinic for Vascular
and Thoracic Surgery at the Central Hospital Augsburg. He is a member of the
German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine (DGG), German Society
for Surgery (DGCH), European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), Vascular
International Foundation, and Association of German Surgeons (BDC). His scientific
focus includes biomechanics and mechanobiology of the aortic aneurysm, aortic
imaging, and vascular biology of the aortic aneurysm.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Carl Disch is the Head of the University Comprehensive Spine Center (UCSC). He studied at the Medical University of Innsbruck, in the Department of Trauma Surgery, and earned a fellowship. He holds a PhD. He is a Consultant at the Department of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. His research interests include Spine Surgery, Biomechanics, Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Surgery, Fracture, Surgery, Tumors, Sports Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, and Microneurosurgery.
Prof. Dr. Adrian Dragu is a plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery specialist with an additional hand-surgery qualification and heads the Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden, Germany. Prof. Dr. Dragu has completed a second course of study, graduating with a Master of Health Business Administration. He is also a member of the Board of Examiners in the State of Saxony and is responsible for innovative projects leading in obesity research and ischemia and reperfusion in free tissue transplantation. In addition, his emphases include the treatment of burn injuries (burns surgery) and acute hand surgery of severe injuries such as micro- and macro-amputations of the upper extremity.
