Andreas Brandl is a surgical oncologist and assoc, Professor at Heidelberg University. He trained at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany and has worked at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon and University Hospital Heidelberg. He is currently Lead Consultant at Krankenhaus Nordwest Frankfurt, where he coordinates the esophagogastric, pancreatic, liver and peritoneal programmes and leads the surgical research group. He remains a principal investigator at University Hospital Heidelberg, leading basic research on metastatic gastrointestinal cancer.
Education is central to his work. As Co-Chair of the European Society of Surgical Oncology’s Education and Training Committee and Chair of its Research Academy, he helps developing training for surgical oncologists across Europe. Andreas has led educational work packages in EU4Health projects, including INTERACT EUROPE 100,and also chairs the Peritoneum Working Group of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery and has authored more than 150 publications.