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
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
Most cited publications
Authors: Erkan, Mert; Hausmann, Simone; Michalski, Christoph W.; ... Friess, Helmut; see more
Published: 2012 in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology
DOI: 10.1038/NRGASTRO.2012.115
Published: 2012 in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology
DOI: 10.1038/NRGASTRO.2012.115
Authors: Diener, Markus K.; Seiler, Christoph M.; Rossion, Inga; ... Buechler, Markus W.; see more
Published:Apr 2011 in The LancetDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60237-7
Published:Apr 2011 in The LancetDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60237-7
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