Professor Dr Werner Hohenberger
- Section Surgery, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesiology
- Location Erlangen, Germany
- Election year 2002
Research
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Chirurgische Onkologie, Kolorektale Chirurgie, Sepsis
Main Research Interests: Surgical Oncology
Main Research Interests: Surgical Oncology
Career
- 1995 Chairman Surgical Department, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- 1991 Chairman Surgical Department, University of Regensburg, Germany
- 1988 Full Professor of Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- 1984 Habilitation
- 1974 Approbation and Promotion
- 1967 - 1973 Degree Course : University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Honours and Memberships
- 2014-2015 President of the German Association of Coloproctology
- 2013 Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande - German Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- Since 2012 Vice-President of the German Association of Coloproctology
- 2011 Visiting Professor at the Peking University People’s Hospital, China
- 2011 Zenkermedaille of the German Society of Surgery
- Since 2010 Trustee of the European Association of Coloproctoly
- Since 2009 Member of the Executive Committee of the German Senologic Society
- 2009 Honorary Professor, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
- 2009 Honorary Member of the Calabrian Society of Surgery
- 2008-2012 President of the German Cancer Society
- 2008 Honorary Citizen of the City of Helmbrechts, Germany
- 2008 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Surgery
- Since 2007 Member of the Scientific Advisoring Board German Tumour Centre, University of Tübingen, Germany
- 2006 Honorary Member of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
- 2006 President of the German Cancer Congress
- 2005 Honorary Member of the Bavarian Society of Surgery
- 2005 Doctor honoris causa University Debrecen, Hungary
- 2005 Anita-und Cuno-Wieland-Preis of the Alois-Hirdt-Erben und Wieland-Foundation Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 Visiting Professor, Department of Colorectal Surgery,Cleveland Clinics, Ohio USA
- 2002 Member of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina
- 2001 - 2011 Member of the Medical Advisory Council of the German Cancer Aid Association (DKH)
- 2001 - 2002 President of the European Association of Coloproctology
- 1992 Honorary Member of the Bulgarian Society of Surgery
- 1985 Johann-Nepomuk-von-Nußbaum-Preis of the Bavarian Society of Surgery, Germany
- 1984 Thiersch-Preis of the Medical Faculty, University of Erlangen, Germany