Michael Ghadimi *1968 in Munich, professor of surgery, head of the Department of General, Visceral and Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center (UMG), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He has held numerous academic posts and is currently executive member of the board of the Göttingen Comprehensive Cancer Center, President of the German Cancer Society (DKG), permanent deputy of the Chief Medical Officer of the UMG, member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - German National Academy of Sciences, member of the Scientific Committee and the Board of Trustees of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

Surgical specialties: pancreas, rectum, esophagus, liver, minimally invasive robotic surgery, endocrine surgery and complex abdominal surgery for gastrointestinal stromal tumors and sarcomas.

Scientific focus: tumor biology of solid tumors (pancreas, rectum,esophagus), the individualized therapy of rectal cancer and clinical trials of gastrointestinal tumors as head of clinical trials (LKP) and principal investigator (PI).

Spokesman for the German Rectal Cancer Study Group in the field of surgery. His department is heavily involved in the recruitment of a large number of patients in German national trials (especially pancreatic cancer) and the trials of the German Rectal Cancer Study Group.

2022 he established the Göttingen School of Surgery and in 2023 the Center for Digital Surgery.