Full Name
Henrik Petrowsky
Job Title
Professor of Surgery
Company/Institution/ Organization
University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland
Speaker Bio
Henrik Petrowsky, MD, FEBS (HPB), FACS
Dr. Henrik Petrowsky is Professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgery and Transplantation at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He serves as Program Director of the HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant Fellowship at the Swiss HPB and Transplant Center Zurich. Dr. Petrowsky is heading the Liver and Pancreas Tumor Center, which is embedded in the Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich at the University Hospital Zurich. His current practice consists of HPB surgery and liver transplantation. His research interests have mirrored his clinical work mainly focusing on translational and outcome research in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.
Dr. Petrowsky received his medical degree from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He spent a two-year research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and completed his training in general surgery and hepatobiliary surgery at The University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2009, he completed the Multi-Organ Transplant Fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles, and joined the faculty of University of California Los Angeles as Assistant Professor of Surgery-in-Residence and liver transplant attending. In 2013, he was recruited as Professor of Surgery of the Department of Surgery and Transplantation at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. Dr. Petrowsky was Past Congress President of the 2023 Congress of the International Society of Liver Surgeons held in Zürich, Switzerland.
Dr. Henrik Petrowsky is Professor of Surgery at the Department of Surgery and Transplantation at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He serves as Program Director of the HPB Surgery and Liver Transplant Fellowship at the Swiss HPB and Transplant Center Zurich. Dr. Petrowsky is heading the Liver and Pancreas Tumor Center, which is embedded in the Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich at the University Hospital Zurich. His current practice consists of HPB surgery and liver transplantation. His research interests have mirrored his clinical work mainly focusing on translational and outcome research in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.
Dr. Petrowsky received his medical degree from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He spent a two-year research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and completed his training in general surgery and hepatobiliary surgery at The University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2009, he completed the Multi-Organ Transplant Fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles, and joined the faculty of University of California Los Angeles as Assistant Professor of Surgery-in-Residence and liver transplant attending. In 2013, he was recruited as Professor of Surgery of the Department of Surgery and Transplantation at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. Dr. Petrowsky was Past Congress President of the 2023 Congress of the International Society of Liver Surgeons held in Zürich, Switzerland.
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