Dr. Benjamin Misselwitz

Dr. Benjamin Misselwitz is an experienced medical professional with a diverse background in both clinical and research settings. He obtained his MD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Leipzig University and completed residencies in Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Zurich and Münsterlingen Cantonal Hospital. He then pursued specialized training in Gastroenterology and completed a post-doc at the Laboratory of Alexandra Trkola in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the ...University Hospital of Zurich. Dr. Misselwitz's work experience includes a variety of roles in gastroenterology and hepatology. He worked as a Staff Physician in Gastroenterology at the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital of Zurich. He served as Deputy Head and Head of the Physiology and Manometry Laboratory at the same hospital. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Consultant in Gastroenterology at the Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine at Inselspital Bern, where he leads the team “Inflammatory bowel diseases.” Dr. Misselwitz's clinical tasks include the care of gastroenterological patients with a focus on inflammatory bowel diseases, clinical care of hospitalized patients and patients with gastroenterological emergencies, investigations such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, and liver biopsy, and supervision and teaching of residents in Gastroenterology and Internal medicine. He is also actively involved in clinical research and has more than 150 original articles, reviews, and book chapters to his name.