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Medical Director, Member of the Faculty

Prof. Dr. Markus Graefen

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University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Martinistraße 52
20246 Hamburg
Website: www.uke-io.com

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Phone 1: +49 (0)40 - 74105 5272
Phone 2: +49 (0)40 - 74105 8574
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 74105 1691

  • Studied human medicine in Bonn and later specialist training in urology at the university clinics in Edinburgh, Düsseldorf and Hamburg
  • Since 1995 employee of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf with the clinical and scientific focus on the diagnosis and therapy of prostate cancer
  • 2000 Scholar of the German Research Foundation with a one-year research stay at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
  • 2001 - 2004 Senior Physician at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and Head of the Special Consultation Hours for Prostate Cancer
  • 2001 Habilitation in Urology with the topic "Prognoseeinschätzung des Prostatakarzinoms" (Prognosis assessment of prostate cancer)
  • 2004 Appointment as head physician at the Martini-Klinik in Hamburg
  • 2007 Appointment as Professor
  • 2011 Appointment as Medical Director of the Martini-Klinik
  • 2012 Member of the scientific advisory board of the German Medical Association
  • Numerous scientific publications, book contributions and research awards mainly in the field of prostate cancer, expert for numerous national and international scientific journals and member of the German, European and American Society for Urology
  • Diagnosis and therapy of prostate cancer 
  • open nerve-preserving radical prostatectomy 
  • robot-assisted nerve-preserving prostatic radical prostatectomy
  • Brachytherapy of prostate carcinoma in the afterloading and seed procedure
  • Active Surveillance Therapy

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