My uncle was operated here by professor Kraus with a complicated cancer condition of colon. Many doctors refused him for surgery but he took him after analyzing all his reports. His condition improved after this long term hospitalization... Read more
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- Prof. Thomas W. Kraus
Prof. Thomas W. Kraus
Nordwest Hospital / Germany
Experience: 33 years
- General Surgery
About the doctor
Top surgeon in Germany. Chief physician of the Department of General, Visceral and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Nordwest Hospital. For 6 years he studied general surgery and 3 years studied visceral surgery at the University of Ruprecht and Karl in Heidelberg. Also passed from Westminster Medical School in London. He has overcome the path from the assistant doctor of the University Clinic of Heidelberg, to the chief physician of the department of surgery of the same hospital, and also to the head of the department of transplantation of visceral organs at the South German Heidelberg Transplant Center. He passed numerous internships in Chicago, Amsterdam, Baltimore, New York, Paris, Vilnius, Madrid, Singapore. Over the period of his practical and scientific activity he received more than 15 awards and grants from professional organizations. He performed thousands of operations to remove benign and malignant tumors of the large and small intestine. Professor Thomas Kraus is the best visceral surgeon in Germany.
Membership in professional organizations:
- American College of Surgeons;
- German Society of Surgery;
- German Society for General and Visceral Surgery;
- Association of German Surgeons;
- German Society of Vascular Surgery;
- German hernia society;
- German Society of Transplantology;
- German Cancer Society;
- Association of Medical Oncology;
- ACOSOG College of Surgeons;
- Cancer Society, Hong Kong;
- Association of Gastroenterologists, Frankfurt.
Doctor’s specialization: visceral surgery, vascular surgery, oncology surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, liver and bile duct surgery, pancreatic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, hernia surgery.
