Who we are

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bittner

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Köckerling
Reinhard Bittner (CV) and Ferdinand Köckerling (CV) were trained in general- and visceral Surgery in the University Hospitals of Berlin and Ulm respectively Erlangen. With the advent of minimal invasive surgical techniques in the early 90s, both surgeons were convinced that this new technology will radically change the traditional ways of surgery. Increasingly both surgeons dedicated their clinical activities to laparo-endoscopy, and correspondingly more and more hernia surgery became the focus of their work. Read more…