Dr. Jan Schmidt

Professor / Jan Schmidt Germany Oncologist

Schmidt studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg (1982–1988). In addition to numerous stays abroad, including in England and Sweden ,in 1988 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Texas at San Antonio . From 1986 to 1989 he wrote his dissertation on bleeding shock in the Department of Experimental Surgery at Heidelberg University. Schmidt received his surgical training from Christian Herfarth and completed it in 1996 as a specialist in general surgery. From 1989 to 1991 he was a fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard University , Cambridge (Andrew L. Warshaw). His habilitation as a private lecturer took place in 1998 on the subject of inflammation of the pancreas . Specializations in the areas of visceral surgery and vascular surgery followed in 2000 and 2002, respectively. From 1998 to 2001 he was head of minimally invasive surgery at Heidelberg University. As part of a travel grant from the German Society for Surgery , he was visiting professor at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York , at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and at the University of Tokyo , Japan. Schmidt was involved in the development of the reformed medical course "Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale". In 2003 he completed a part-time Master of Medical Education (MME) course at the University of Bern . A year later he was appointed associate professor at Heidelberg University. From 2005 to 2011 Schmidt was the head of visceral organ transplantation and played a key role in establishing living liver donation as well as the liver and kidney transplant program for small children and infants. In 2006 he carried out the first liver transplant in an infant and the first living liver donation in a toddler in the history of Heidelberg University Hospital . He became Senior Consultant in Charge (2007–2009) and then Deputy Medical Director at the Surgical University Clinic in Heidelberg under Markus W. Büchler . Schmidt has been working at the Hirslanden Clinics in Zurich in the field of specialized oncological surgery since 2011. In 2012 he was co-founder of the Surgical Center Zurich (until 2018) and the Gastrointestinal Tumor Center Zurich (GITZ). In 2018 he founded Swiss Surgery , a competence network for operative cancer treatment. In 2003 the University of Klausenburg in Romania awarded Schmidt an honorary doctorate for the successful establishment of a scientific exchange program. In 2006 he received a honorary doctorate from the University of Tbilisi , Georgia in recognition for the development of Nierenlebendspende- and transplantation program in children and adolescents. In 2004, he received the state teaching award of the state of Baden-Württemberg for his work in the context of the development of the reformed medical course "Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale" . Schmidt is an honorary member of the Surgical Society of Serbia and the Academia Argentina de Cirugía.