Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Downtown Campus of the University Hospital of Munich, Germany, Pettenkoferstr. 8a, 80336 München, jbogner@med.lmu.de

Prof. Dr. med. Johannes Bogner, born 1960, is head of the ID department since 2006. He was active in building up and expanding the Division of Infectious Diseases since 1986, which comprises now an ID Consult Service for inpatients, a Clinic for acute and chronic infectious disorders as well as an ID ward. He completed his expertise as an Infectious Disease Specialist with a fellowship at the Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, New York. 2001 he was appointed Professor of Medicine. He is active as a teacher at Medical School in various forms including lectures, seminars and teaching rounds. He is Board- approved instructor for Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and has numerous lectures and talks at international and national conferences. In 2012 he was appointed Editor in Chief of the Springer-Nature Journal INFECTION. His scientific core aereas are immunology and treatment of HIV infection, development of new anti-infective medication in clinical trials (antivirals, antimycotic compounds and antibiotics), and antibiotic treatment of infections due to multi-resistant organisms.

Zert.-Epithetiker dbve / Anerkannte Epithetikerin IASPE

1980-88 Ausbildung und Tätigkeit Universitätsklinik Basel/Schweiz
1989-92 Weiterbildung Med.-Hochschule Hannover (Deutschland)
Universitätsklinik Göteborg (Schweden)
1993 Gründung Institut für Epithetik Celle (Deutschland)
1994 Gründung Institut für Epithetik (Epithetik Swiss)
2010 Sonder-Zertifizierung für Augenprothetik (Bulbusversorgungen)
seit 1994 Vortrags- und Referententätigkeiten (D, CH, I, A, Li)

2001–2002 Clinical Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine I (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Diabetology), University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, University Hospital Berlin

2003–2005 Clinical Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine I (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Endocrinology, Diabetology), University Hospital Bonn

Since 2007 Department of Medicine IV, LMU Munich — Clinical focus on autoimmune thyroid disorders, Senior Physician

Since 2018 Interdisciplinary Outpatient Clinic for Endocrine Orbitopathy, LMU Munich

Education
Preclinical studies University of Regensburg, Germany
Graduation as health economist (diploma)
Study of human medicine at the Medical School of the University of Regensburg, Germany
Rotations: University of California, Davis, University of Bern
Residency training in Otorhinolaryngology, University of Regensburg, Germany
2015 Assistant Professor University of Regensburg, Germany
2017 Attending, University of Goettigen, Germany
2017-2024 Senior Physician and Managing Physician
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital LMU Munich, Germany
Since 2024 Rhinology Consultant at University Hospital LMU Munich, Germany and Private Practice Munich

Scientific activities:
since 2009 >90 peer reviewed articles
Supervisor of >20 medical theses
Scientific awards and grants (e.g. German Society of Facial Plastic Surgery, CEORL, German research grants)
Since 2017 Head of the Munich Sinus Course
Since 2021 Professor (apl.) Medical Center of the University of Munich

Memberships
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie e. V.
• The European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS)
• European Rhinology Society (ERS)

Principal Investigator, DKTK Junior Clinical Cooperation Unit on Non-Coding Cancer Biology Attending Physician, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, LMU University Hospital, Munich
Johannes Hellmuth is a physician-scientist specializing in lymphoma. He leads the DKTK Junior Clinical Cooperation Unit on Non-Coding Cancer Biology at the Institute of Pathology, LMU Munich, and serves as an attending hematologist–oncologist at LMU University Hospital. His research integrates and epigenomic profiling and functional genomics to uncover enhancer-driven vulnerabilities in hematologic malignancies.
After earning his medical degree from the Technical University of Munich, he trained in hematology and oncology at LMU Munich and conducted postdoctoral research at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York in the laboratory of Prof. Ari Melnick. Dr. Hellmuth is a board-certified hematologist and oncologist and the lead clinical investigator for several lymphoma trials at LMU Munich.

He qualified in Medicine the University of Pisa, graduated in Ophthalmology at the University of Florence, became PhD at the University of Amsterdam and Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO) in Paris. He sub-specialized in oculoplastic and orbital surgery first under the guide of Richard Collin and Geoffrey Rose at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and then with Leo Koornneef at the Orbital Centre, University of Amsterdam. Afterwards he has been a Consultant surgeon, Universitary Docent (UD), and then nominated Director to the Orbital Centre, University of Amsterdam.

At present he is Professor of Ophthalmology (“Chargé de Cours”), Director to the “Orbita and Ocular Adnexal service” and President to the PhD Council “Oculoplastic, Orbital, Lacrimal Diseases and Surgery” at the Department of Ophthalmology, Catholic University of Louvain, at the Saint Luc Academic Hospital of Brussels, member of the Examining Commission of EBO.

He trained medical students, residents, twenty international fellows, and had the opportunity to publish in the field of orbital and ocular adnexal diseases. He has been member of the scientific advisory board, invited speaker and faculty member at a wide variety of international congresses, and courses and had organised national and international congresses. He is active reviewer and/or member of the editorial board of ophthalmic, maxillo-facial, and internal medicine journals, visiting professor to several European, North American and Asian universities.
He is member of numerous scientific societies and currently the President of the European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO) and Section Editor for orbit, oculoplastic and adult strabismus of the European Journal of Ophthalmology.

Heads the Oculoplastic and Orbital Services at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he is dedicated to patient care, teaching, and research. He completed his medical training in ophthalmology at LMU Munich before specializing in eyelid and orbital surgery. His fellowship training included work with Charles Beyer-Machule (Munich), J. Richard O. Collin (London), and Leo Koornneef (Amsterdam).

In 1993 he became a full member of ESOPRS, serving as its Secretary from 2006 to 2014. He is a Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO) and an active member of both EUGOGO and the Orbital Society.

For more than two decades, he has led a multidisciplinary orbital board as well as a combined Graves’ clinic. He also organizes the Munich Beyer-Machule Course on Eyelid Surgery and the Munich Orbital Symposium, both held biennially.

Christoph Hintschich has been an invited lecturer and guest surgeon in numerous countries and has trained many international fellows. His main professional interests include functional and aesthetic eyelid surgery and orbital surgery, with a particular focus on ptosis correction, surgical rehabilitation in Graves’ disease, and management of the anophthalmic socket

Constantin Hintschich, MD, is a clinical scientist and surgeon focusing on oculoplastic, orbital, and lacrimal surgery at the Eye Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Alongside patient care, he is actively involved in teaching and research.

After completing specialty training in otolaryngology with experience in endoscopic surgery of the paranasal sinuses and skull base at the University Hospital Regensburg, he began an additional training in ophthalmology with special focus on oculoplastics at the LMU Eye Hospital.

He has an extensive research background in chemosenses, having completed his habilitation in 2023 and conducted a postdoc at Harvard University and Tufts University, Boston. He has received grants by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Society of Ophthalmology (DOG), and the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (DGHNO). He has a keen intertest in the surgical training of residents and is a co-founder of Cellsor Inc., a biotechnology company developing a living olfactory biosensor for real-time olfactory detection.

Dr. Leonie F. Keidel is a clinician-scientist at the Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (fellow of the Munich Medical and Clinician Scientist Scholarship Program). In her consultant role, she is responsible for the neuro-ophthalmology, glaucoma and emergency clinics. Her primary area of expertise is optic neuropathies, which is also the focus of her presentation at this meeting.

works at the Department of Ophthalmology, University Duisburg Essen Germany. She is the Head of the Westgerman Orbital Center and leads oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery and orthoptics.

She studied medicine at the University Leipzig and later Munich. She received her residancy training at the University of Tuebingen and at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. For postresidant training she moved to the University Hospital Essen. There she did her PhD and become associate Professor.

Her main research focus is preclinical and clinical research on orbital autoimmunity especially thyroid eye disease. She received grants from DFG (German Research Foundation), EU (INDIGO grant), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Bielschowsky science support. She is in the executive committee of the EUGOGO as clinical studies lead.

Dr. Leonie F. Keidel is a clinician-scientist at the Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (fellow of the Munich Medical and Clinician Scientist Scholarship Program). In her consultant role, she is responsible for the neuro-ophthalmology, glaucoma and emergency clinics. Her primary area of expertise is optic neuropathies, which is also the focus of her presentation at this meeting.

Professional Career
06/2023 – present:
Consultant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
01/2023 – 05/2023:
Specialist, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
04/2023:
Doctorate in Dentistry (Dr. med. dent.), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
12/2022:
Doctorate in Medicine (Dr. med.), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
08/2017 – 12/2022:
Resident, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
11.01.2018:
German Dental License (Approbation as Dentist)
13.02.2017:
German Medical License (Approbation as Physician)
10/2013 – 07/2017:
Surgical Assistant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery – Head and Neck Surgery, Euromedica General Clinic, Thessaloniki
07/2016 – 04/2017:
Military Service as Infantry Physician, Hellenic Army
09/2012 – 07/2016:
Owner, Private Dental Prac-ce, Ioannina
03/2012 – 09/2013:
Surgical Assistant, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery – Head and Neck Surgery, General Hospital of Ioannina “G. Chatzikosta”
02/2012 – 12/2015:
Dentist, Dental Ins-tu-on Ioannina
09/2010 – 10/2011:
Internship, Private Dental Clinic, Thessaloniki
Education
09/2011 – 07/2016:
Medical Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina
09/2006 – 07/2011:
Dental Studies, Faculty of Den-stry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
07/2006:
High School Diploma (Abitur)
Scholarships
2006–2007:
Scholarship from the State Scholarship Founda-on (I.K.Y.) for outstanding performance, Faculty of Dentistry, Aristotle University
2008–2009:
Scholarship from the State Scholarship Founda-on (I.K.Y.) for outstanding performance, Faculty of Den-stry, Aristotle University

Roland Gärtner MD, PhD, retired from Department of Endocrinology at the LMU Munich since 10/2012
Current position: Private Clinic for Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Munich

Consultant outpatient Clinic together with Prof. C. Hintschich Centre for Orbita Disease, LMU Munich

Education:
University degree in Medicine at the LMU, Munich, Germany Approbation 1976
Training in Biochemistry 1976 – 1979 and Cell Biology Prof. Herzog, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Munich 1984-1985
Education in Internal Medicine 1979 -1985 LMU Munich, Endocrinology and Diabetes:final exam 1987, Intensive Care Medicine, final exam 1991.
PhD 1987, topic: Growth regulation of isolated porcine thyroid follicles ex vivo
Recognition of Quality in Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism from the Board of Endocrinology of the U.E.M.S. 2001

University career:
Ass. Prof since 1989; 1993-2012 Head of the outpatient clinic for Endocrinology and Diabetes at LMU Munich. Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine 1995-2006Prof. Internal Medicine, Lecturer in Endocrinology, Internal Medicine and Internal Intensive Care Medicine

Petros Perros is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK. His main clinical and research interest has benn thyroid diseases. He has served as president of the European Group On Graves Orbitopathy and has co-authored national and international guidelines on thyroid eye disease.

Aylin Garip Kübler embarked on her career journey with a residency at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Department of Ophthalmology in Munich, from 2006 to 2011. She achieved a Specialist Ophthalmology certification in 2011 and obtained Fellowship of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO) in 2012. Following the completion of her residency, she served as a consultant with a focus on oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery in the same clinic. During this time, she worked closely with Professor Christoph Hintschich. In 2018 she became a full member of the European Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS). Her research concentrates on improving the tools for diagnosing and treating optic nerve compression in patients with Thyroid Eye Disease.

Professor of Radiology, Attending Radiologist
Department of Clinical Radiology
University of Munich Hospitals

Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse was born in Leverkusen, Germany. He studied biology at Ripon College, Ripon, WI, USA, medicine at the universities of Bonn, Germany, Bristol, England, UK, and California-San Francisco, USA, outcomes research and clinical epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco, USA, and health care management at the University of Applied Sciences, Deggendorf, Germany.

He pursued residency training in urology, radiology, and neuroradiology at the University of Munich Hospitals, Germany, and worked as a clinical instructor and research fellow in radiology at the University of California-San Francisco, USA. Besides his M.D. degree, full medical license and board license in radiology, Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse holds a B.A.-degree in biology, and an M.B.A.-degree for health care management.

He has been attending radiologist since 2002, attending PET-CT radiologist since 2012, and Professor of Radiology at the University of Munich Hospitals, Germany, since 2010. Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse has served as an editorial board member of “European Radiology”, and as a reviewer for different national and international medical journals. He is an active member of different national and international medical societies, including the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the German Roentgen Society, and the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR).

His research interests include MRI, CT, PET-CT, and new imaging systems in urogenital imaging, chest-and-lung imaging / occupational medicine, and head-and-neck imaging.

Prof. Dr. med. Florian Ringel is Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the LMU University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

After graduation from Medical School at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany he was trained in neurosurgery at the University of Bonn with Prof. Dr. Johannes Schramm. Following board certification 2006 he continued his neurosurgical activities at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, working as staff neurosurgeon and later vice chairman with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer. In 2016 he was appointed at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany, as Full Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany. In January 2025 he changed to the LMU Munich and is now Full Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the LMU University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Prof. Ringel ́s clinical interests focus on neurooncology and simple and complex spine surgery in tumors, infections, degenerative disease and trauma. His academic focus is on the same topics and he published more than 350 scholarly arEcles in peer-reviewed journals and is regular speaker at national and international events.

He is acEve member of several scientific societies including the German Neurosurgical Society (DGNC), the German Academy of Neurosurgery (GANS), the Germany Spine Society (DWG), the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and the North American Spine Society (NASS). He is chairman of the EANS Spine SecEon, President of the DWG and speaker of the Neurosurgical Academy (NCA). He has been repeatedly named to the lists of best German physicians for brain tumors and spine surgery in the German magazines Focus and Stern.

Geoffrey Rose graduated BSc Pharmacology (1976), in Medicine (1979), and is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (1982). During ophthalmic training he received Fellowship of the Royal College Surgeons (1985) and Royal College of Ophthalmologists (1988). He gained a University of London MS doctorate (1989) for original research, and was later awarded the highest academic accolade of Doctor of Science (2004).

Professor Geoffrey Rose was appointed to the consultant staff at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1990, has been Director of the Adnexal Service, and is now an honorary consultant to the hospital. He lectures widely, has presented various named lectures, and received the Lester Jones Anatomy Award from ASOPRS (of which he is honorary fellow).

Professor Rose is a Senior Research Fellow of the Biomedical Research Centre at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London, and is a Past-President of ESOPRS and a Past-President of BOPSS.

Peerooz Saeed studied medicine at the university of Amsterdam. After residencies in neurosurgery and ophthalmology in Amsterdam, he was a fellow in orbital and oculoplastic surgery with Leo Koornneef in Amsterdam and Jack Rootman in Vancouver, Canada. He received his PhD at University of Amsterdam.

His scientific work focuses on Graves orbitopathy, Orbital tumors and anatomy on which he is author of many peer-reviewed publications and contributed to textbooks.
At this moment is he professor of orbital surgery, the director of orbital center at Amsterdam university medical center (AUMC) and vice chair of department of ophthalmology of AUMC. He has trained many orbital and oculoplastic surgeons from across Europe, North America, and Asia. Since 2004, he is the president the World Access to Medical Advances Foundation an organization which facilitates training and fellowship programs on site. He is member of the orbital society, European society of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Anna Schuh, MD, FEBO, is a consultant and surgeon for oculoplastic, orbital, and lacrimal surgery at the Eye Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Besides patient care, she is actively involved in teaching and research.

After she completed her residency in ophthalmology, she undertook advanced oculoplastic training at LMU Munich (Prof. C. Hintschich) and refined her expertise in lacrimal surgery at the Eye Hospital Darmstadt (Prof. K.-H. Emmerich).

Her scientific work has been recognized with the Leonhard Klein Award for the Advancement of Ophthalmic Surgery, the Dieter Bumiller Research Award, and the Sicca Research Award.
She leads the cooperation project with the University Eye Department in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Schuh is a full member of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS), the European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO), and the Section for Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the German Ophthalmological Society (SORC DOG).

Uli Schaudig trained in general and plastic surgery in Munich before he turned his interest to ophthalmology at the University Hospital in Hamburg Eppendorf.

After his board certification in 1997, he continued to work as a senior registrar at the University, with special interests in both oculoplastic and vitreoretinal surgery and completed his scientific work with a PH.D. thesis on retinal imaging. He served as head of ophthalmic pathology and the oculoplastic service.

In 2007, he became chief of the department of Ophthalmology at the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek.
His department serves as one of four hospital based centres of ophthalmology for the metropolitan area of Hamburg, provides a residency program and teaches undergraduate students for Hamburg University and Semmelweis University (Asklepios Medical School), Budapest.
He continues to work as a general ophthalmic surgeon, with a special interest in oculoplastic surgery.
He has published numerous articles in german and international peer –referenced journals and is a regular lecturer at international and national congresses.

He organized the 2019 annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Hamburg and co-organized the first online-only annual ESOPRS meeting 2021 during the SARS CoV2 pandemic.

Current affiliation and services:
Executive Committee member, representing Germany: ESOPRS European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Board member, representing ophthalmology, GÄCD multidisciplinary German society of aesthetic surgery,
Head, SORC, Section of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery, German ophthalmological society DOG ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ophthalmology)

Member of several other national and international scientific societies (DOG, ASOPRS, AAO, Retinological society) and regular reviewer for peer-reviewed journals (OPRS, Die Ophthalmologie, Orbit, Current Eye Researchm, Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde)

Uli Schaudig is married, his wife Katrin Schaudig is a well renowned specialist in gynecological endocrinology.

 
2003 Fachabitur an der Friedrich-Oberlin-Fachoberschule für Sozialwesen (Pädagogik und Psychologie) in München

2003 Beginn der Ausbildung zur Ocularistin in der Praxis Arnold Greiner in München

2006 Prüfung zur Assistentin der Ocularistik durch den „Bundesverband Deutsche Ocularistische Gesellschaft“

2009 Prüfung zur Diplom Ocularistin durch den „Bundesverband Deutsche Ocularistische Gesellschaft“

seit 2010 Mitglied im „Bundesverband Deutsche Ocularistische Gesellschaft“

2009-2016 angestellte Ocularistin in der Praxis Arnold Greiner e.K., München

Seit 2016 Inhaberin der Praxis Arnold Greiner e.K., München

2016-2020 und 2023-2025 Ausbilderin im „Bundesverband Deutsche Ocularistische Gesellschaft“
Seit 2024 Mitglied im Vorstand ,,Deutsche Ocularistische Gesellschaft Bundesverband“ (DOGB)