Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Pfannschmidt
Chief Physician, Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, Heckeshorn Lung Clinic at Helios Emil von Behring
Specialist fields (in extracts)
- Lung tumours, lung metastases (laser), tumours and narrowing of air tracts
- Port implantations (also ambulant)
- Lung and pleural tuberculosis diseases, malignant pleural diseases (pleural mesothelioma, carcinosis)
- Tumours at the thorax wall, recurrence and radiation damages after breast tumours, including skin and muscle displacement patch plastics
- Tumours of mediastinum space (germ cell tumours, dermoids, thymomas, cysts, struma) including vessel replacement surgery
- Suppurations in breast chest (empyema) and mediastinum (mediastinitis)
- Lung, breast bone, and breast wall Inflammation/ purulent conditions
- On the thorax wall, as funnel chest or chicken chest (surgery procedures after Nuss and Ravitch), and also thorax plastics
- Diaphragm (folding, hernia, ruptures)
- Debridement in pleural suppuration
- Benign conditions of oesophagus
- Hematothorax (blood accumulation in breast space)
- Pleural carcinosis: pleurectomy / pleurodesis
- Tumours of mediastinum, VATS thymectomy in Myasthenia gravis
- Unclear changes in lungs (round focus), lung cancer in early stage (VATS lobectomy), lung rupture (spontaneous pneumothorax), lung hyperinflation (volume reduction)
- Excessive perspiration of head, hands, and arms (sympathectomy in hyperhidrosis), and in blood circulation disorders
- Video-assisted mediastinal lymph node removal (video-mediastinoscopy)
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
| 1989 – 1992 — Physician in practical year, Assistant physician and scientific assistant in the clinic for thoracic- and cardiac surgery of the University of Cologne (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med E. R. de Vivie) |
| 1992 – 1995 — Assistant physician in the department for visceral-, thoracic- and vessel surgery (Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. H. Böttcher), as well as in the clinic for trauma-, hand- and plastic surgery (Prof. Dr. med. H. Seiler) of the ZKH Reinkenheide / Bremerhaven |
| 1992 — American final university examination USMLE: ECFMG-Certificate |
| 1995 – 1999 — Senior physician in the department for visceral-, thoracic- and vessel surgery of the ZKH Reinkenheide/Bremerhaven (Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. H. Böttcher) |
| 1999 – 2000 — Assistant physician in the department for surgery of the thoracic clinic at the University Clinic Heidelberg (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. H. Dienemann) |
| Since 2000 — Lectureship for the subject «Surgery», Heicumed, University Heidelberg |
| 2000 – 2003 — Senior physician in the department for surgery of the thoracic clinic at the University Clinic Heidelberg (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. H. Dienemann) |
| 2003 — Deputy senior physician in charge of the thoracic clinic at the University Clinic Heidelberg (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. H. Dienemann) |
| 2006 — Venia Legendi for the subject of surgery, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg: «Surgery of lung metastases – Clinical and molecular biological prognosis parameter» |
| 2010 — Professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg |
| 2013 — Chief physician Clinic for thoracic surgery of the lung clinic Heckeshorn at Helios Hospital Emil von Behring |
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