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Prof. Dr. Wiebke Fenske, born in 1979 near Lüneburg, is clinic director of the Department of Internal Medicine I (General Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology) at BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, where she runs a dedicated liver and hepatitis clinic. She studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, conducted DFG-funded postdoctoral research at Imperial College London, then led a research group at the Integrated Research and Treatment Center for Obesity Diseases at Leipzig University and completed her habilitation in 2016, subsequently serving as senior physician in endocrinology at Leipzig University Hospital. In 2020 she became a university professor and section head at Bonn University Hospital, before accepting the chair of endocrinology and diabetology at Ruhr University Bochum along with the directorship of Medical Clinic I at Bergmannsheil in 2023. Her research addresses metabolic and endocrine disorders and cardiometabolic risk factors, and she has established several interdisciplinary research networks in this field.
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