Shah Samir S

Dr. Siegfried A. Shah MD is a specialist for visceral and oncologic surgery and a board certified colorectal and oncologic surgeon with over 20 years of clinical experience (Seniordarmoperateur Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft, DKG). He is chief of the Department of General, Visceral and Minimalinvasive Surgery at the SMH Hospital Düren, a teaching hospital of the University Clinic of Aachen. Specialties are - Colo-rectal surgery (surgery of the colon and the rectum e.g. rectal cancer, colon cancer, diverticulitis, and complications of inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease) - Transanal minimalinvasive surgery for rectal Adenoma, rectal cancer - Oncological surgery/metastasis surgery (especially metastases in the liver, spleen, lymph nodes, e.g. colo-rectal cancer) - Hepatobiliary surgery (liver surgery/bile duct surgery e.g. liver tumours (hepatocellular carcinoma), gallbladder cancer, and cholangiocellular carcinoma (cancer of the bile ducts)) - pancreatic surgery (pancreatic surgery e.g. pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis) - Surgery of the oesophagus and stomach (e.g. achalasia, oesophageal cancer, Zenker's diverticulum, and gastric carcinoma) - Endocrine surgery (surgery of the glands, including thyroid surgery and adrenal gland surgery) and neuroendocrine surgery (e.g. endocrine pancreatic tumours) - Minimally-invasive surgery (especially in surgery of the rectum, colon, gallbladder, spleen, and adrenal gland) - Hernia surgery He is member of the Department of Experimental Surgery, University of Bochum, "https://www.experimentalsurgery.ruhr-uni-bochum.de", Head Dr. Jochen Salber, PhD Review editor Biomaterials in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology