Markus Wolfgang Büchler (born ) is a German surgeon and university full professor. He specialises in gastrointestinal,

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and

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, and is especially known for pioneering

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on the

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.Markus W. Büchler
The Pancreopedia.

Life and education

Büchler was born in

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, Saar Protectorate (nowadays

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federated state in south-west

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) to Eugene Büchler, a medical internist, and his wife Erika. He spent his school years in Dillingen and in the catholic boarding schoo
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Medical and scientific career

From 1974 to 1979, Büchler studied medicine at the

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. Subsequently, he trained in

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and

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at the

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in 1979/80, where, upon completion of the training in 1980, he obtained the medical license. In the same year he defended his doctoral thesis and received the

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degree from the University of Heidelberg. He further specialised in surgery at the University of Ulm, where he qualified for

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and was appointed an attending surgeon in 1987. In Ulm Büchler met his English colleague

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and together they founded the European Study for Pancreas Cancer Research (ESPAC). In 1991 he became associate professor and the vice chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Ulm. In 1993, Büchler moved to Switzerland where he became professor of surgery and chairman of the Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at the

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, Inselspital. In 1999 he also headed the Department of Gastrointestinal, Liver and Lung Diseases at the

, Inselspital. In June 2000, he received a call to the Chair of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Ulm, but he did not succeed. In 2001, he returned to Germany and took up the call to the full professorship of surgery and became chairman of the Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at

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. Since 2003 he is managing medical director of the Department of Surgery at

. In parallel, he heads the Departments of Surgery a
Salem hospital
in

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since 2005, at the General Hospital in Sinsheim since 2009, at the General Hospital in Eberbach since 2012, and at the General Hospital in Heppenheim since 2013. Markus W. Büchler is a surgical expert for diseases of the

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and especially the

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. His surgical focus is on hepatobiliary, colorectal, and pancreatic surgery and transplant surgery. As a surgeon, he has developed new surgical methods and, with his staff in Heidelberg, carries out more than 800 operations at the

per year. At his initiative, th
European Pancreas Center
was established at

. As an academic surgeon, he specializes in translational medicine, oncological surgery and the development of new surgical techniques. He is co-author of more than 2,500 scientific publications focused on gastrointestinal cancers, pancreatic diseases and clinical surgical issues. Among others, Markus Büchler was elected president of the Swiss Society for Visceral Surgery in 1999 and 2000, vice-president of the Swiss Surgical Society in 2000, president of the European Pancreatic Club in 2002, president of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA, 2006–2008), chairman of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV) for the 2010-2011 period and president of the German Surgical Society of Surgery (DGCH) in 2012. He acts as an editor and a member of editorial boards of international medical journals., has been Editor-in-Chief of Digestive Surgery since 1995, and since 2010 he is Editor-in-Chief of Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery.

Scientific merits

Since 2009 Markus Büchler is a member of the

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. Büchler is an honorary member of numerous professional societies, including the Royal Society of Medicine of England since 1998, the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 2009, the American Surgical Association since 2010 and the American College of Surgeons since 2013. He has received multiple awards, like in 2016 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Pancreatic Club (EPC), in 2020 the Living Legend Status of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPB

and in 2021 th
Award of the German Cancer Society
Büchler has been awarded the degree of an Honorary professor, Honorary Professor by the Railway Medical College of

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, PR China, by the Southeast University of

, PR China, by the

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, China, by the

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, Uruguay, by the

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, PR China, and by the University of Prague, Tzech Republic. He has been awarded an honorary medical doctorate by the

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, the Vasile Goldiş West University in Arad, Romania, the University of Belgrade, Serbia, the Belarusian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education in

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, by Vilnius University, Lithuania, by the

, PR China, and by the University of Pécs, Hungary.

Awards (selection)

* Ludwig Rehn Award of the Middle Rhine Area Association of Surgeons (1987) * Research Award of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (1991) * Award of the European Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy (1993) * Research Prize of the Swiss Society of Surgery (1995) * Surgery Prize of the Swiss Society of Surgery (1996) * Max Siurala Award, Finnish Society of Gastroenterology (2005) * Anthony Gimbernat Award, Catalan Society of Surgery (2005) * Hippocrates Award, Hellenic Society for Internal Medicine (2006) * Amundsen Medal of the Institute for Surgical Research University of Oslo (2013) * Rudolf-Zenker Prize of the German Surgical Association (DGCH) (2014) *Lifetime-Senator Status of the German Surgical Association (DGCH) (2016) *Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Pancreatic Club (2016). *Karl-Heinrich-Bauer-Prize of the German Surgical Association (DGCH) (2018) *In November 2018 Expertscape recognized Dr. Büchler as #3 in the world for expertise in

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. * Deutscher Krebspreis (2021) of the German Cance
Society

Books (selection)

* Diseases of the Pancreas: Acute Pancreatitis, Chronic Pancreatitis, Neoplasms of the Pancreas. Karger 2004, * Chronic Pancreatitis. Wiley-Blackwell 2002,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchler, Markus 1955 births Living people People from Saarlouis German transplant surgeons Heidelberg University alumni Heidelberg University faculty University of Ulm alumni University of Ulm faculty Free University of Berlin alumni