Professor Dr. Rudolf Weiner - Germany

Professor of Surgery Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Head of the Department of Surgery at the Frankfurt Sachsenhausen Hospital
Center For Bariatric Surgery-Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Center for Oncologic and Endocrinologic Surgery
Website: http://www.profweiner.com/

Biographical statement:

Prof. R. Weiner is head of the department of surgery in the hospital Krankenhaus Sachsenhausen. His specialty and expertise is the surgical treatment of obesity in a minimally invasive way using the videoendoscopic technique, which allows operations with only some small cuts. He also does other abdominal operations using these techniques.

Prof. R. Weiner is one of very few surgeons worldwide who can perform a variety of different procedures for obesity: intragastric balloon, gastric pacer, gastric banding (adjustable), gastric bypass (RYGB), banded bypass and biliopancreatic bypass with duodenalswitch. (BPD/DS).

He has a great deal of experience with weight loss surgery. He has been working in that field for almost twenty years. Since 1994 he has performed more than 1600 laparoscopic weight loss surgeries; not only in Germany, but also in different countries worldwide. (e.g. Egypt, Brazil, Russia, Hungary, Portugal and much more).
Curriculum vitae

Personal information

" Date of Birth: 8 September 1951
" Birthplace: Torgau/Elbe Germany

Office location
Prof. Dr. Rudolf A. Weiner
Chefarzt Chirurgische Klinik
MIC-Zentrum
Krankenhaus Sachsenhausen
Schulstra?e 31
60594 Frankfurt a.Main
Germany
Tele: (0049) 69-6605-1199 / FAX: (0049) 69-6605-1510 or 1530
Map: http://mqdirect.mapquest.de/map.adp?venue=ag5fr%269

Websites
" http://www.weightloss-surgery.com
" www.geocities.com/obesityacademy
" www.khs-ffm.de

Education

" M.D.1976 University of Leipzig
" PhD May 1977 University of Berlin
" 1977-1984 General surgery and urology training at the Hospital of "St.Georg" Leipzig.
" 1981 Qualified Urologic surgeon.
" 1984 Qualified General surgeon.
" 1979-1984 Benefited from additional training in traumatology and vascular surgery at the University Hospital of Leipzig.
" 1992-1993 Associate professor of surgery at Leipzig University.
" 1993-2000 Associate professor of surgery at Johan Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
" 2000 Titular Professor of Surgery at Johan Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
" 2001 Head of Surgery at the Frankfurt Sachsenhausen Hospital and Center for Minimally invasive Surgery.

Experience:

Performed bariatric (obesity) surgery as early as 1978 (starting with intestinal bypass and Mason)
" Received specific obesity surgery training
" Performed advanced laparoscopic surgery as early as June 1993
" Developed and standardized the surgical technique for the laparoscopic application of gastric banding (LAP-BAND) "Pars flaccida technique". The technique has been adopted worldwide by most surgeons using the LAP-BAND.
" Experienced in laparoscopic surgery and laparoscopic functional surgery of the stomach (Nissen fundoplication)
" Regularly performs live procedures in front of audiences worldwide.
" Teaches at the Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University.
" Organizes regular international workshops where over 250 surgeons worldwide were given "hands-on" training on the laparotomic and laparoscopic application of LAP-BAND and laparoscopic gastric bypass.
" Published more than 300 medical articles in journals around the world including Surgical Endoscopy, Obesity Surgery, Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy, International Surgery, Hepato-Gastroenterology Coloproctology, Der Chirurg, Chirurgische Allgemeine and other.
" Performs all Bariatric Procedures by laparoscopic means
Member (Council)
" Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (S.A.G.E.S)
" International Society of Surgery for Obesity (IFSO) - Advisory Board
" European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (E.A.E.S.)
" American Society for Bariatric Surgery (A.S.B.S.)
" Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Chirurgie
" Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Chirurgie der Adipositas
" German Society for bariatric Surgery (Vice President )