Dr. Markus W. Büchler

Professor Büchler is the chairman of the Department of General, Emergency and Visceral (and transplant) Surgery at the University of Heidelberg, Germany -- as affiliated with the German Cancer Research Centre, the European Laboratory of Molecular Biology and the Max Planck Institutes for Medical Research (and Cell Biology).

After his training in general surgery and cardiovascular surgery at the University of Berlin in the early 1980s, Professor Büchler took further surgical positions at the University of Ulm, Germany. It was at this time that he became particularly interested in transplant surgery and in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (and liver) in general, and of the pancreas in particular. Dr. Markus Büchler most recently was the Chairman of the Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at the University of Bern, Inselspital in Switzerland.

Professor Büchler is a member of numerous international, European and North American professional surgical and medical societies. He also belongs to the European Pancreatic Club, the International Association of Pancreatology, the World Association of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, the American College of Gastroenterology, the International Society for Regional Cancer Therapy and the Collegium Internationale Chirurgiae Digestivae. Additionally, Professor Büchler is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Pancreatology, an Associate Editor of Pancreas, the Editor of Chirurgische Gastroenterologie, the Editor-in-Chief of Digestive Surgery, a member of the editorial board of Swiss Surgery and a council member of The British Journal of Surgery Society.