About
Prof. Dr. med. Hartmut Schmidt is Director of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University Hospital Essen and holds the chair of Internal Medicine with a focus on Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen. His clinical focus is on gastroenterology, hepatology, and in particular transplant medicine. Career: Schmidt studied medicine in Hannover and conducted research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, USA. From 1988 he worked clinically in Hannover, and from 1999 to 2005 as senior physician at Charité Berlin. In 2005 he was appointed professor of Experimental Transplant Hepatology in Münster, where in 2010 he founded his own transplant medicine clinic and held Germany's only chair for transplant medicine, before moving to Essen in 2021. Research: Schmidt has received numerous research awards, including twice from the German Society for Internal Medicine, as well as the Ludolf Brauer Prize and the research award of the German Transplantation Society. He emphasizes the interdisciplinary transplant-medicine focus as forward-looking for hepatology.
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