Doctor Richard Merkle

About the Doctor

Membership

• Member of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH)

• Member of the German Society for Bariatric Surgery (IFSO)

Education

• 1988 - 1992 Study of human medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (state examination and license to practice medicine)

• 1992 Promotion to Dr. med.

• 1996 Training as a specialist in surgery at the Surgical Clinic and Polyclinic at the Großhadern Clinic of the LMU Munich (Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. F. W. Schildberg)

• 2002 - 2008 Senior consultant in the Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery at the Surgical Clinic Munich-Bogenhausen

• Since October 2008 Head of the Viscera Surgery Center, Munich

Certificates

• Holder of the myBody® seal of quality

• Jameda Top 20 Visceral Surgery (Abdominal Surgery) in Munich (01/2022)

Services

• Inguinal hernia treatment: Shouldice surgical technique/Lichtenstein surgical technique

• Minimally invasive hernia repair using the TAPP and TEP technique

• Umbilical and incisional hernia (abdominal wall hernia)

• Anti-reflux surgery (LINX/fundoplication)

• Gall bladder removal

• Appendectomy

• Gastric balloon treatment

• Gastric sleeve formation

• Gastric bypass surgery

• Gastric and intestinal resections for inflammatory and malignant diseases

• Removal of adhesions

• Surgical endoscopy (gastroscopy and colonoscopy)

• Tumor screening examinations

Experience

• 1996 Specialist in surgery

• 2002 Visceral surgeon