Portrait Andreas Kremer

Andreas Kremer
Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Specialties

  • Transplant hepatology
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Molecular mechanisms of autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 85 48

Career

Since 2021 Deputy Head of Hepatology, Senior Physician, Assistant Professor of Hepatology and Research Group Leader, University Hospital Zurich
2021 Obtaining the specialist qualification in gastroenterology
2020 – 2021 COVID-19 Task Force Manager and member of the crisis team of the University Hospital Erlangen (UKER)
2020 – 2021 Senior Attending Physician for the COVID-19 isolation ward, UKER
Since 2019 Habilitation in internal medicine, UKER
2018 – 2019 Head of the Internal Medicine Emergency Department, UKER
2018 – 2021 Head of the Liver Transplant Program, UKER
2018 – 2021 Deputy Head of Hepatology, UKER
2018 – 2021 Head of the non-dermatological pruritus outpatient clinic, UKER
2018 – 2021 Attending Physician and emergency endoscopist at Medical Clinic 1, UKER
2018 Obtaining the specialist title of internal medicine
2017 – 2021 Head of the Laboratory for Functional Gastroenterology, UKER
2014 – 2021 Head of the Hepatology Center for Clinical Studies, UKER
Since 2013 Board of the German Pruritus Research Council (AGP)
2012 – 2021 Clinician Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Medical Clinic 1, UKER
2007 – 2011 PhD and Post-Doc at the Tytgat-Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, DFG scholarship
2006 – 2007 Resident in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

Scientific degrees

2018 Venia legendi: Associate Professor
2017 MHBA thesis: “Monitoring systems for multi-resistant pathogens” (Prof. Schöffski, Nuremberg)
2015 PhD thesis: “Molecular Mechanism of Pruritus in Cholestasis” graded with distinction (Prof. Oude Elferink/Prof. Beuers, Amsterdam)
2007 Doctoral thesis: “Nucleosomes in the serum of tumor patients undergoing radiochemotherapy”, graded magna cum laude (Prof.
Seidel, Munich)

Academic education and degrees

2015 – 2017 Study for a Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA)
2006 License to practice medicine (MD)
1998 – 2006 Study of human medicine (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)

Most important memberships

  • American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
  • Working Group on Pruritus Research (AGP)
  • Professional Association of Gastroenterology Germany (BVGD)
  • German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM)
  • German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (DGVS)
  • German Liver Foundation
  • European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
  • German Association for the Study of the Liver (GASL)
  • International Forum for the Study of Itch (IFSI)
  • Nederlandse Vereniging Hepatologie (NVH)
  • Swiss Association for the Study of the Liver (SASL)
  • Swiss Society of Gastroenterology (SGG)

Editorial Boards

  • Itch
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Research