Surgeon Dirk Weyhe appointed

Prof. Dr. Dirk Weyhe has been appointed Professor of Visceral Surgery at the Department of Human Medicine. He has been Director of the University Clinic for Visceral Surgery at the Pius-Hospital Oldenburg since 2007 and had held the professorship in an interim capacity since 2013.

Weyhe studied human medicine at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he received his doctorate in 1998 and his Habilitation in 2008. He specialised in surgery, visceral surgery and special visceral surgery with additional qualifications in surgical intensive care and emergency medicine and was a consultant at the St. Josef Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum from 2002 to 2007. In 2005 he became head of the molecular experimental surgery laboratory for gene expression analysis at the hospital. Before moving to Oldenburg, he was senior consultant at the Pancreas Centre of the St. Josef Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Weyhe's main clinical focus is complex oncological visceral surgery, including pancreatic, oesophageal, gastric and colon cancer surgery. His research concept centres on further improving patient safety in surgical procedures.