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Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pohl, born in 1970 in Düsseldorf, is chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology (GastroClinic) at Asklepios Klinik Altona in Hamburg. He studied medicine at the University of Düsseldorf (1991-1998) and earned his doctorate there in 1998, including a research fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (1996-1997). After his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (1997) and an adjunct professorship (2009), he worked in gastroenterology/hepatology at Heidelberg University from 1998 to 2005, as senior physician at Dr. Horst Schmidt Hospital Wiesbaden from 2007 to 2013, and as chief physician at Friedrichshain Hospital Berlin from 2013 to 2015, before taking over gastroenterology at Asklepios Klinik Altona in 2015. His research focuses on diagnostic and interventional endoscopy, particularly endoscopic submucosal dissection for early cancer removal and cholangioscopy. Since 2012 he has served as editor-in-chief of the Video Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and has made significant contributions to European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy guidelines.
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