Prof. Dr. Franck Billmann
Senior Consultant – Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery – University Hospital Heidelberg
Role in LiSyM-Cancer
- Co-Project leader in SMART-NAFLD
- Contributes patient cohorts, samples and data
Expertise
- Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, minimally invasive / robotic-assisted surgery and transplantation surgery, metabolic and bariatric Surgery, oncological surgery, endocrine surgery
- Chief Physician at Diabetes and Adipositas Center
Degrees
- 2022, Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg
- 2017, Habilitation in Medicine, University of Freiburg
- 2008, PhD Degree, University of Strasbourg, France
- 2008, Doctorate in medicine, University of Freiburg
- 1995 – 2002, Medical Studies, School of Human Medicine at the University of Strasbourg, France and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Professional Experience
- Since 2022, Senior Consultant, Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg
- Since 2022, Head of the Upper GI Surgery Section, Minimally Invasive and Robot-Assisted Surgery, Section and Endocrine Surgery Section, Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg
- 2017 – 2022, Senior Physician, Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University of Heidelberg
- 2015 – 2017, Senior Physician, Head of Endocrine Surgery, Neuroendocrine Tumors, Department of Surgery, University of Lübeck
- 2012 – 2015, Senior Physician, Department of Surgery, University of Freiburg
- 2005 – 2012, Resident physician, specialist and senior physician, Department of Surgery, St. Vincentius Kliniken, Karlsruhe
- 2002- 2005, Resident physician, Department of Surgery, Klinikum Mittelbaden, Bühl
Honors and Awards (Selection)
- Member of several surgery associations
- Since 2023, Education and Training Committee, European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)