e-mail: nashan@uke.uni-hamburg.de

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Dr. Nashan studied medicine at the Heinrich Heine University College of Medicine in Düsseldorf, graduating in 1984 and obtaining his MD thesis on work in experimental aenesthesiology. Following his military service he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Transplant Immunology Laboratory at the Klinik für Abdominal- und Transplantationschirurgie in Hannover from 1986 to 1988. He completed his residency in the program of surgery as a general surgeon in 1994, was appointed as consultant and finished his training in visceral surgery in 1996. He received his PhD in 1995 from the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and was appointed Associate Professor. His clinical responsibility as head since 1996 was hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery, and the multivisceral transplant program for adults and children at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover. This program included liver, kidney and pancreas transplantation with a focus on living donation for liver and kidney transplantation in both adults and children. He was appointed Full Professor of Surgery in 2000 in Hannover. In 2003 he moved as Director of the Multi Organ Transplant Program at Dalhousie University, QEII Health Science Center, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany. Professor Nashan is adjunct Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dalhousie University.