Professor Arnulf Hölscher received the Karl Heinrich Bauer Award of the German Society of Surgery on April 12, 2021 during the German Congress of Surgery in Mainz. This Award is conferred every fourth year for achievements in surgical cancer research. The decoration was awarded for the clinical research work of Professor Hölscher on Esophageal and Gastric […]

Unfortunately Prof. Hölscher was not able to receive this honour personally in april 2020 in Yokohama during a traditional session of the 120. Congress of the Japan Surgical Society under the presidency of Prof. Kitagawa of the Keio University in Tokyo, because this event was cancelled due to the Covid 19 pandemic. In the postponed […]

Only academic surgeons are accepted in this distinguished society after nomination by three sponsors. The annual congress which is organized in changing European cities has the highest scientific standard of European surgical congresses. After a very competitive concourse the best rated papers of the meeting are published in the November issue of the best international […]

Prof. Hölscher has received the Honorary Fellowship of the Portuguese Society of Surgery during the annual congress of this distinguished society in 2019. He has also obtained during the last years the Honorary Fellowship of following International Societies: French Society of Surgery (2014) Swiss Society of Visceral Surgery (2015) Austrian Society of Surgery (2016) Romanian […]

Together with Prof. Dr. S.P. Mönig from Geneva and Prof. Dr. H.J. Meyer from Berlin, Prof. Dr. A.H. Hölscher is editor of the book “Expertise Oberer Gastrointestinaltrakt” which was published by Thieme Verlag in 2021. It deals with all the most important current aspects of the diagnosis and therapy of diseases of the esophagus and […]