Prof. Dr. Med. Rudolf A. Hatz，Head of the Thoracic Surgery Centre Munich Clinic of the University of Munich /Lungenfachkliniken Gauting

Work Experience：

• 2008 Full University Professorship (W2) in Thoracic Surgery

• 2007 Training officer and consultant of the Bavarian Chamber of Physicians for thoracic surgery for the State of Bavaria

• 2006 Head of the Thoracic Surgery Centre Munich Clinic of the University of Munich /Lungenfachkliniken Gauting

• 2005 Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

• 2004 Senior Physician of the Surgical Clinic and Polyclinic at the Großhadern Clinic of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

• 2003 Head of the thoracic surgery department with BLÄK authority for further training in thoracic surgery

• 2001 Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)

Membership：

• 2015 Member of the American Society of Surgery as "Fellow of the American College of Surgeons" (FACS)

• Head of the Munich Lung Transplant Group

• Professional Association of German Surgeons e.V. (BDC)

• International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

• Project member of the Tumor Center Munich

• German Society for Surgery

Scientific Awards and Prizes：

• 2007 Georg Heberer Award and Walter Schulz Prize 

• 2002 Rudolf-Schindler Prize of the Gesellschaft für Endoskopie und bildgebende Verfahren, e.V., Munich, Germany

• 2001 Video Award for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the German Society for Surgery, Munich

• 1998 Prize of the European Study Group on Immunology and Pathogenesis in MucosalInfections, Helsingör, Denmark

• 1994 Prize of the European Study Group on Gastroduodenal Pathology, Barcelona, Spain

• 1993 Prize of the European Study Group on Gastroduodenal Pathology, Brussels, Belgium