Prof. Herbert Lochs, MD, is a prominent German and Austrian medical doctor and scientist. After graduating from the University of Innsbruck Medical School, Austria he completed his residency at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Innsbruck. Then he moved to Vienna for the internship in internal medicine and became Assistant professor for internal medicine and gastroenterology

Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. The name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gaster , enteron , and logos...

 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...

 in 1973.

He received Board Accreditation for Internal Medicine by the Austrian Medical Association.

Prof. Lochs went for a Sabbatical to the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, which was focused on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

Metabolism

Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that happen in the cells of living organisms to sustain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments. Metabolism is usually divided into two categories...

. After returning to the University of Vienna Medical School he became Associate Professor at the Department of Gastroenterology.

Since 1994 Prof. Herbert Lochs is chairman of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Charité

Charité

The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for both the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After the merger with their fourth campus in 2003, the Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe....

 Medical Faculty, Berlin. http://www.charite.de/en. The main interests of his work, clinically as well as scientifically are inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease

In medicine, inflammatory bowel disease is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. The major types of IBD are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.-Classification:...

, nutrition and metabolism.

He participated in numerous clinical trials focused on inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal oncology

Oncology

Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...

, hepatology

Hepatology

Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Etymologically the word Hepatology is formed of ancient Greek hepar or hepato- meaning ' liver' and suffix -logia meaning 'word' or 'speech'...

and nutrition.

Amongst others he was awarded the Hoechst-Prize, the Anton-von-Eiselsberg-Prize and the Dr. Theodor-Billroth-Prize twice.

Prof. Lochs is an active member at the European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN), the German Society for Gastroenterology (DGVS), the American Gastroenterologic Association (AGA), the German Crohn's Colitis Association (DCCV), the Austrian Society for Internal Medicine, the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM), the German Cancer Society, the International Organization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IOIBD). He was president of ESPEN, of the German Society for Clinical Nutrition (DGEM) and the Austrian Society for Clinical Nutrition.

Prof. Lochs is an honorary member of several medical societies e.g. the Polish Society of Nutrition, the Hungarian Society of Clinical Nutrition, the Chech Medical Purkinje Society.

Prof. Lochs is an author of over 250 original publications, 73 reviews and book articles and also editor of several books.http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Lochs&oldid=63769857