Markus M. Lerch#
| Membership Number: | 4374 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| ORCID: | 0000 0002 9643 8263 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief and Chief Operating Officer, LMU University Hospital Munich
- 2021 - present Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief and Chief Operating Officer, LMU University Hospital Munich, Germany
- 2007 - 2020 Professor and Chair, Dept. Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
- 2003 - 2007 Professor and Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany
- 1997 - 2003 Associate Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine B, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
- 1996 - 1997 Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dept. Medicine II, University of the Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany
- 1994 - 1996 Staff Scientist, Dept. Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany
- 1992 - 1994 Fellowship in Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Consultant Physician and Reader, Dept. Medicine I, Ulm University, Germany
- 1989 - 1992 Research Fellowship, Beth Israel Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; interrupted 1998 - 1990 by Research Fellowship in Cell Biology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
- 1984 - 1989 Residency in Internal Medicine, Dept. Medicine, University Hospital, Aachen Technical University, Germany
- 1983 - 1984 Residency in Pathology, Dept. of Pathology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Pathophysiology, cell biology and genetics of pancreatic disorders
- Clinical trials for pancreatic diseases
Honours and Awards
- 2021 American Pancreatic Association, Vay Liang & Frisca Go Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 2018 George-Palade-Prize in Cell Biology, Int. Association of Pancreatology, Miami, FL, USA
- 2018 Honorary Membership, Polish Society of Gastroenterology, Warsaw, Poland
- 2017 Paul D. Webster III State-of-the-Art Lecture, Am. Pancreatic Association, San Diego, USA
- 2016 Elected member of European Academy of Science (Academia Europaea), London, UK
- 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, European Pancreatic Club, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Rudolf W. Ammann memorial lecture
- 2016 Wangensteen Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 2015 - present, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis
- 2015 Peter B. Cotton Endowed Lecture, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
- 2010 Comfort named visiting professorship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- 2005 Frank P. Brooks Memorial Basic Science Lecture, Am. Pancreatic Association, Chicago, IL, USA
- 2014 Geza Hetenyi Medal and honorary membership Hungarian Gastroenterological Society
- 2007 Professor of the Year (best clinical teacher), University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
- 2001 Honorary Fellow of the Glasgow Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCP)
- 1998 Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (FACG), USA
- 1993 Adolf Kussmaul Price for Gastroenterology, Southwest German Society of Gastroenterology, Germany
