Head of Department: Priv. Doz. Dr. Ulrich Wahnschaffe
Certified Specialist in Internal Medicine
Specialisms: gastroenterology, emergency medicine, medical information technology

• Higher Education, Training and Qualifications
  • 08/1986 - 11/1994    
    Medical degree at Free University, Berlin,
    Qualified in state examination 11/1994       
  • 08/1997 - 10/2001    
    Course in medical information technology at the Technical University of Applied Science, Berlin
• Career
  • 12/1994 - 08/2005 
    Charité - Benjamin Franklin Campus, Gastroenterology/Infectiology/Rheumatology (under Prof. Dr. M. Zeitz) Specialty registrar
  • 08/2005 – 03/2006
    Senior ward physician in Central Endoscopy unit
  • 07/1996 – 12/1997  
    Reseach grant: research laboratory operated by Charité - Benjamin Franklin Campus     
  • 03/2006 – 03/2009    
    University Clinic, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald
    Medical Clinic A
    Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Nephrology
    Consultant   
  • Since 04/2009    
    Waldkrankenhaus Ev. Hospital, Spandau
    Clinic for Internal Medicine I
    Gastroenterology, Haematology and Oncology
    Head of Department                                                                                                                                     
• Membership of Professional Associations / Honorary positions
  • German Society for Digestive and Metabolic Diseases
  • German Society for Endoscopy and Imaging Techniques
  • Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Berlin and Brandenburg
  • German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine
  • National Federation of Working Groups of German Emergency Doctors 
• Selection of Publications
  
  • Wahnschaffe U, Ullrich R, Mayerle J, Lerch M, Zeitz M, Faiss S,
    EUS-guided Trucut needle biopsies as first-line diagnostic method in patients with intestinal or extra intestinal mass lesions
    Surgical Endoscopy 2009
  • Lerch MM, Stier A, Wahnschaffe U, Mayerle J.
    Pancreatic pseudocysts: observation, endoscopic drainage, or resection?
    Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2009 Sep;106(38):614-21. Epub 2009 Sep 18. Review.
  • Aghdassi A, Richter G, Simon P, Ringel J, Puls R, Evert M, Wahnschaffe U.
    A male patient with ileitis and a calcifying small bowel lesion. Neuroendrocrine carcinoma. Gut 2008;57:1554, 1572.
  • Wahnschafe U, Schulzke J-D, Zeitz M, Ullrich R
    Predictors of clinical response to gluten-free diet in patients diagnosed with diarrhea-dominant irritable bowel syndrome. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 5(7): 844-50, 2007
  • Wahnschaffe U, Ignatius R, Loddenkemper C, Liesenfeld O, Muehlen M, Jellinek T, Burchard G-D, Weinke T, Harms G, Stein H, Zeitz M, Ullrich R, Schneider T
    Diagnostic value of endoscopy for the diagnosis of giardiasis and other intestinal diseases in travelers with persistent diarrhea. Scand J Gastroenterol 42:391-396, 2007