The Expert for Pancreas Surgery

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Markus W. Büchler performs 2-3 surgeries for pancreatic cancer and other malignancies daily, making a total of 600-800 surgeries per year.

He has operated on patients that were deemed inoperable by other centers, including those from around the world. He is now setting up the Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre in Lisbon.

Honorary Memberships

Since 1995, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Markus W. Büchler has been continuously invited as an honorary member of various medical societies.

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In 1980

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Büchler received his M.D. in Heidelberg. Markus W. Büchler started his surgical training at the Free University of Berlin and later continued at the University of Ulm, where he received his PhD (Habilitation) in 1987. He became deputy hospital director in Ulm in 1991 and received a C2 professorship.


Since 1987

Already since 1987 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Markus W. Büchler has been working as a specialist in the surgical field. In the 1980s still in Ulm, subsequently in Bern and Heidelberg, now as Director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center at the Champalimaud Foundation and also as Director of the Surgical Oncology.


As of April 2023

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.. Markus W. Büchler became Director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center at the Champalimaud Foundation. He also became Director of the Surgical Oncology Clinic.