Christoph Broelsch is a German surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

 and former high school teacher. Broelsch pioneered the liver transplant surgery. In 1989 he was the first to successfully perform a live liver transplant.

Life and Work

Broelsch grew up in the hanseatic city of Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

. He studied medicine at the University of Cologne

University of Cologne

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with over 44,000 students, one of the largest universities in Germany. The university is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, an association of Germany's leading research universities...

 and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1984 he was appointed to the University of Chicago and became the chairman of hepatobiliary transplant. In 1991, Broelsch managed the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. From 1998 until his suspension in 2007 Broelsch was Director of the Department of General and Transplant Surgery of the University Hospital Essen.

Broelsch, for his services in 1991 with the Federal Cross of Merit and in 2004, was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2002 he received the Lucie-Bolte-price. Broelsch was the physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 of President Johannes Rau

Johannes Rau

Johannes Rau was a German politician of the SPD. He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.-Education and work:...

.

Judicial procedures

Broelsch was in several proceedings for corruption

Corruption

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, fraud

Fraud

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 and accused tax

Tax

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and sentenced at first instance. He was accused of ill patients treated only with increased payments. Against the verdict, both the prosecution presented Essen, as well as the defense review at the Federal one. The first instance decision of the Regional Court of Essen is therefore not currently in force

Publications

• Living related liver transplantation: medical and social aspects of a controversial therapy C E Broelsch
• Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstr 55, 45122 Essen, Germany Gut 50:143-5
• Should we expand the criteria for liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma—yes, of course! Christoph Erich Broelsch
• Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, D-45122 Essen, Germany J Hepatol 43:569-73
• Impact of donor gender on male rat recipients of small-for-size liver grafts YanLi Gu
• Department of General Surgery and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany Liver Transpl 11:669-78
• [Surgical and interventional treatment of liver metastases] C E Broelsch
• Klinik für Allgemein und Transplantations chirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Essen MMW Fortschr Med 147:21-4
• Increased levels of interleukin-10 in serum from patients with hepatocellular carcinoma correlate with profound numerical deficiencies and immature phenotype of circulating dendritic cell subsets Susanne Beckebaum
• Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany Clin Cancer Res 10:7260-9
• Major bile duct injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a tertiary center experience Andrea Frilling
• Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany J Gastrointest Surg 8:679-85
• Hepatoma—resection or transplantation Christoph E Broelsch
• Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital of Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, Essen 45122, Germany Surg Clin North Am 84:495-511, x
• Early and late complications in the recipient of an adult living donor liver Christoph E Broelsch
• Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Germany Liver Transpl 9:S50-3
• Hepatitis B virus-induced defect of monocyte-derived dendritic cells leads to impaired T helper type 1 response in vitro: mechanisms for viral immune escape Susanne Beckebaum
• Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, and Institute of Immunology, University of Essen, Germany Immunology 109:487-95
• Prophylactic thyroidectomy in multiple endocrine neoplasia: the impact of molecular mechanisms of RET proto-oncogene Andrea Frilling
• Klinik für Allgemein und Transplantationschirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45122 Essen, Germany Langenbecks Arch Surg 388:17-26