Medic Maximilian Bockhorn appointed

Dr. Maximilian Bockhorn has been appointed Professor of General and Visceral Surgery at the Department of Human Medicine. He is also Director of the University Clinic for General and Visceral Surgery at the Klinikum Oldenburg.

Before coming to Oldenburg Bockhorn was senior consultant and deputy director at the Clinic for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery at the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Bockhorn studied human medicine in Tübingen and Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1996. In 1998, he transferred to the Clinic for General, Abdominal and Transplant Surgery at Essen University Hospital for his specialist training. From 2000 to 2002 he conducted research at Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA). After earning his Habilitation, Bockhorn returned to the UKE in 2008. He became a certified specialist in abdominal surgery in 2012 and in thoracic surgery in 2016, Bockhorn's clinical focus is oncological surgery and minimally invasive surgery in tumour diseases of the liver, stomach and other organs. In his research he is investigating the role of inflammation in tumour development.