About the doctor
Profile
Treatment of thyroid cancer, treatment of pancreatic cancer, endocrine surgery, thyroid surgery, surgery of the thyroid gland, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, thyroid immunohistochemistry, xenotransplantation of endocrine tumors, molecular biology of thyroid and other endocrine neoplasms, surgery for multiple endocrine neoplasia types 1 and 2, surgery for sporadic and hereditary paraganglioma syndromes, surgical treatment of thyroid cancer and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Work experience
45 years
Scientific activity
Author of more than 900 scientific publications, including 180 books and review articles in leading international medical journals:
New England Journal of Medicine;
Cancer Research;
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism;
Thyroid — Essentials of Surgery;
Surgery and World Journal of Surgery.
Editor-in-Chief of the German journal Chirurg;
Co-editor of Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery;
Editorial board member of the Polish Journal of Surgery.
For me, it is important that we work at the highest technical and medical standards… but at the same time we, as physicians, show compassion, because we know how crucial it is for a patient’s recovery.
Data
Modern treatment protocols for medullary thyroid carcinoma published by the American Thyroid Association are based on the recommendations of Professor Henning Dralle
Founder of the implementation of intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery
Honors and awards:
Johann Georg Zimmermann Medal (1982/83)
Hermann Kümmell Prize, Association of Surgeons of Northwest Germany (1985)
Light of Life Foundation Award (2013)
Aldo Pinchera Award for thyroid cancer research (2014)
Teresian Prize (2015)
Community
European Thyroid Association (ETA)
British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS)
International Society of Surgery (ISS)
Corresponding Member, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES)
Member, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS)
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
Fellow of the European Board of Surgery — Division of Endocrine Surgery (FEBS)
Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2002)
Honorary Member, German Society of Nuclear Medicine (2006)
Honorary Member, European Society of Surgeons
Honorary Doctor, University of Bergen (2012)
Honorary Member, Italian Society of Endocrine Surgeons (2015)
Honorary Doctor, Jagiellonian University (2015)
Honorary Member, Polish Society of Surgeons (2015)