Jörg Kleeff is the 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. In 1997, he received his doctorate on the topic: “Diagnostic
methods and epidemiology of HTLV-I/II in Germany” at the Max von Pettenkofer
Institute at the LMU Munich. After that, he started his scientific career as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California in Irvine, USA.
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 to 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. He published more than 500 articles and book chapters (h-index:
84). His clinical work focuses on oncological surgery of the
hepato-pancreato-biliary system as well as of the upper and lower
gastrointestinal tract. His research interests include Surgical Oncology,
Pancreatic Diseases.
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Short Biography
Jörg Kleeff is the 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. In 1997, he received his doctorate on the topic: “Diagnostic
methods and epidemiology of HTLV-I/II in Germany” at the Max von Pettenkofer
Institute at the LMU Munich. After that, he started his scientific career as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California in Irvine, USA.
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 to 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. He published more than 500 articles and book chapters (h-index:
84). His clinical work focuses on oncological surgery of the
hepato-pancreato-biliary system as well as of the upper and lower
gastrointestinal tract. His research interests include Surgical Oncology,
Pancreatic Diseases.
