Andreas Türler is a specialist in minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery. He has a particular interest in the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer.
Prof. Türler completed his basic surgical training at the University Hospitals of Cologne and Bonn and became a senior physician in 2003, then managing senior physician at the University Hospital of Bonn in 2005.
Between 2000 and 2002, Prof Türler conducted research on postoperative ileus as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, publishing extensively in this field and receiving awards. This was followed by his habilitation in 2002 and his appointment as associate professor at the University of Bonn in 2008.
Since 2007, he has been Chairman of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the Johanniter Clinics in Bonn. Under his leadership, more than 3,500 procedures are performed annually. The department he heads is a certified centre for visceral oncology, colon cancer surgery, pancreatic cancer surgery and peritoneal carcinomatosis. Prof. Türler is a key opinion leader and national instructor in minimally invasive surgery and, in particular, robot-assisted surgery. He is also a board member of the CAMIC (Minimally Invasive Surgery) and ROBIN (Robotic Surgery), both working groups of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery.