Helios/Experts/PD Dr. med. Christoph Wullstein
PD Dr. med. Christoph Wullstein
Visceral & General Surgery

PD Dr. med. Christoph Wullstein

Chief Physician general, visceral and minimally invasive surgery

Clinical Focus & Subspecialties

  • Minimally invasive surgery: Hernia, cholecystectomy, reflux surgery, colectomy, oesophagectomy, gastrectomy, pancreatectomy
  • Surgical oncology: Colorectal cancer, oesophageal cancer, gastric cancer, pancreas cancer, liver metastases, peritoneal carcinomatosis (HIPEC)

Curriculum Vitae

1986 – 1993
Medical studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
1993 – 1995
Assistant Physician: Department of Bone and Joint Surgery
1995 Licence to practice medicine, Hospital Remscheid, Teaching Hospital, University of Hamburg
1995 – 1998
Assistant Physician: Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Gen. Hospital Barmbek Hamburg
1997 Doctorate in medicine, Ruhr University Bochum
1998 – 1999 Assistant Physician: Department of General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
1999 Board certification as surgeon
2000 - 2001 Man. Senior Physician: Transplantation Surgery, University of Rostock (Prof. U. T. Hopt)
2001 – 2002 Chief Physician: Department of Surgery, Ruhr University Bochum
2002 Board certification as visceral surgeon
2002 – 2008 Chief Physician: Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt (Prof. W. O. Bechstein)
Since 2008 Chief Physician: Department of General, Visceral and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Helios Hospital Krefeld

Certifications & Qualifications

1999 — сертификат по специальности «Общая хирургия» 

2002 — сертификат по специальности «Абдоминальная хирургия»

2004 — постдокторантура, Университет им. Й. В. Гете, Франкфурт, «Влияние симультанной трансплантации поджелудочной железы и почки при уремии у пациентов с СД I типа»

Academic Activities & Research

2004 — Postdoctoral qualification in surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

- «Risk factors of the non-immunological morbidity following simultaneous pancreas/kidney transplantation in uremic type-1 diabetics»

German Society of Surgery

Professional Association of German Surgeons

Study Group Minimally Invasive Surgery

Professional Memberships

AWARDS:

2003 — Roche Transplantation Award 2003

2004 — Scientific Award of the Study Group Gastroenterology in Central Germany