Doctor Gerhard Prager

About the Doctor

Publications

• Numerous scientific articles and publications

  http://www.gerhardprager.eu/index.php/de/publikationen-de

Membership

• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)

• Austrian Society of Bariatric Surgery

• Austrian Obesity Association

• Surgical Working Group for Minimally Invasive Surgery (AMIC)

• Austrian Society for Surgery (ÖGC)

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)

Experience

• March 2004 University Lecturer

• July 1992 Awarded degree to practice medicine as a general practitioner

• October 1992 - May 1993 Military service (army anesthetist)

• December 1993 – April 1997 Assistant Physician at KH Mistelbach, Department of Surgery (Board of Univ. Prof. Dr. E. Schima)

• April 1997 - September 97 Guest semester (surgical endocrinology) under Univ. Prof. Dr. B. Niederle at the clinical Department of General Surgery (Board of Prof. Dr. R. Jakesz), Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna

• October 1997 – February 1998 Assistant Physician at KH Mistelbach, Department of Surgery (Board of Univ. Prof. Dr. E. Schima)

• March1998 Assistant Physician at the Clinical Department of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna

• April 1999 Received medical specialist diploma for surgery (Austrian Medical Association)

• April 2003 Appointed Senior Physician at the Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Received license to teach surgery - postdoctoral qualification

• April 2004 Head of the Obesity Surgery Working Group at the Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Clinical Department of General Surgery

• April 2005 Head of the Minimal Invasive Surgery Working Group at the Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Clinical Department of General Surgery

• April 2005 Head of the Minimal Invasive Surgery Working Group at the Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Clinical Department of General Surgery

• Since 2006 Board Member of the Austrian Society of Bariatric Surgery

• Since 2012 Board Member of the Surgical Working Group for Minimally Invasive Surgery for the Austrian Society of Surgery

• Since 2008 Board Member of the Austrian Obesity Association

• Since 2011 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)

Services

• Bariatric surgery

• Thyroid surgery

• Parathyroid surgery

• Adrenal surgery