Head of the Department of Endocrine Surgery, ISAR Klinikum (Munich)
Prof. Dr. med. Heinrich Fürst worked for many years as a surgeon at LMU University Hospital Munich, where he most recently headed the Department of Thoracic Surgery and led the Lung Transplantation Group.
He then served for two decades as Chief Physician and Medical Director at Martha-Maria Hospital in Munich, a specialized academic teaching hospital and one of Germany’s leading centers for endocrine surgery.
Since March 2022, Prof. Dr. med. Heinrich Fürst has been Head of the Department of Endocrine Surgery at ISAR Klinikum in Munich.
He has authored numerous scientific publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals, including AJNR, Stroke, The Lancet, Clinical Science, Annals of Surgery, and World Journal of Surgery.
Areas of specialization
Visceral surgery
Thoracic surgery
Vascular surgery
Endocrine surgery
Diagnosis, conservative and surgical treatment of thyroid and parathyroid diseases