
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
- 08/1986 - 11/1994
- 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
- 12/1994 - 08/2005
- 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
- Wahnschaffe U, Ullrich R, Mayerle J, Lerch M, Zeitz M, Faiss S,