Priv.-Doz. Dr. Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch

Clinic management

Managing Senior Physician

E-mail
reinhold.kafka-ritsch@tirol-kliniken.at
Birth date
1963
Nationality
Austria
Family status
married

University Degree(s)

1987
Doctor of holistic medicine (Dr. med. univ.), Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck

Professional Development

1981
1987
Medical studies University of Innsbruck
1992
1995
Development worker: Community health care project in El Salvador
1992
Jus practicandi
1995
2000
Residency general and transplant surgery University hospital Innsbruck
2000
Graduated as general surgeon
seit 2001
Senior consultant
2009
Head of gastrointestinal oncologic surgery
seit 2011
Managing clinical consultant, Department of Visceral, Ttransplant and Thoracic Surgery
2013
Venia Docendi

Additional Training, additional Professional Title

1987
1988
Postgraduate Diplom "Community Health" University Innsbruck
2002
Good clinical practice
2006
Seminar for managers "patient- and employee-oriented leadership"
2014
2015
Leadership and Management

Clinical focus

Gastrointestinal oncology – minimal invasive surgery
Surgical infections – abdominal sepsis
ERAS - FAST TRACK Surgery

Research Emphasis

Abdominal sepsis – open abdomen treatment
ERAS – FAST TRACK surgery
Minimal invasive oncologic surgery – quality of life

Position & membership in Scientific Societies

Austrian Society of Surgery (ASS)
Austrian Society of Surgical Oncology (ACO-ASSO), Head Colorectal Surgery
AMIC
German Society for Surgery (DGCH)
German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV)
Professional Association of Austrian Surgeons (BÖC)
Surgical infection society Europe
- 2017
Member "Nutritional Advisory Board of the University Hospital Innsbruck"
European open abdomen expert surgical panel - ABThera™ Advisory Panel
2012
2018
Head of the gastrointestinal oncology working group of ACO ASSO

Publications

28 ISI Web of Science-listed articles
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