Prof. Dr. med. Hans Udo Zieren
Address: Krankenhausstraße 42, Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, 50354, Germany
Gender: Male
About the Doctor / Professional
Prof. Dr. med. Hans Udo Zieren is the Head of the Department for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery at the Sana Hospital Hürth (Cologne). He is a Specialist in General, Visceral and Trauma Surgery, Special Visceral Surgery, Proctology and Physical Therapy.
With over 30 years of experience in thyroid surgery, together with his surgical team, Prof. Dr. Zieren has already performed more than 10,000 thyroid and parathyroid surgeries for patients from all over Germany and abroad. His treatment spectrum ranges from surgeries of all degrees of difficulty, often highly complex cancer and recurrent operations. In addition to all types of conventional surgical procedures for benign and malignant diseases, Professor Dr. Zieren also performs minimally invasive treatment methods such as nodule destruction by thermoablation.
Prof. Dr. Zieren is also the founder and medical director of the German Thyroid Center - a platform of physicians from various specialties who are focusing on the thyroid gland from different perspectives.
Medical Focus:
- Thyroid surgery
- Thyroid enlargement (goiter)
- Recurrent goiter after previous surgery
- Parathyroid surgery
- Thyroid cancer
- Morbus Basedow
- Thermoablation for thyroid nodules
Residency: Surgical University Hospital Cologne-Lindenthal
- Since 1.4.2022 - Head of the Department for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, Sana Hospital Hürth (Cologne)
- 1999 - 2022 - Head of the Department for General, Visceral and Trauma Surgery, St. Agatha Hospital, Cologne
- 1994 - 1999 - Professor and Deputy Hospital Director of the Department for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Trauma Surgery of the Humboldt University in Berlin (Charité) under Prof. Dr. J.M. Müller Apl. Professor of the Humboldt University in Berlin (Charité)
- 1986 - 1994 - Residency and habilitation at the Surgical University Hospital Cologne-Lindenthal under Prof. Dr. Dr. H. Pichlmaier
- 1979 - 1985 - Study of human medicine in Cologne
Procedures Performed : 10,000
- More than 80 medical presentations
- Most recent:
- 1) Zieren, H.U.: Status quo and perspectives of thyroid surgery, 136th Congress of the German Society of Surgery, March 28, 2019, Munich, Germany.
- 2 )Zieren. H.U.: The way to your own thyroid center, 136th Congress of the German Society of Surgery, March 28, 2019, Munich.
- 3) Zieren, H.U.: Modern thyroid surgery, 13th Cologne Thyroid Day, Sept. 25, 2017, Cologne, Germany.
- More than 120 publications in medical journals and books
- Most recent:
- 1) Zieren, H.U.: Hashimoto's thyroiditis, German Medical Journal (2021) 8:16-19
- 2) Zieren, H.U.: Clinical manifestations of thyroid disorders, Ärzte Krone (2021) 18:15
- 3) Zieren, H.U.: Autoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland
- CME (2021) 18: 9-17
- Thyroid Cancer Treatment
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Goiter Treatment
- Graves' Disease
- Hashimoto's Disease
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism Treatment
- Hypothyroidism Treatment
- Parathyroid Disorders
- Substernal Goiter (Retrosternal Goiter)
- Thyroid Adenoma Treatment
- Thyroid Cancer Treatment
- Thyroid Disorders
- Thyroidectomy
- Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM)
- Microsurgery
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Parathyroid Gland Reimplantation (Autotransplantation)
- Thermal Ablation
- Thyroid Nodules
- Thyroidectomy
- Frozen Section Procedure
- Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) Testing
- German Thyroid Center (Founder and Medical Director)
- Thyroid Center Cologne (Chairman)
- German Society of Surgery
- German Society for General and Visceral Surgery
- Working Group Endocrine Surgery of the DGAV
- Professional Association of German Surgeons
