Professor Stefan Mönig is Consultant surgeon in the Division of Digestive Surgery and in charge of Upper GI surgery since May 2016.
His clinical and research activities are focused on esophageal and stomach cancer, minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy, thoracoscopy and robotics) and benign diseases of the esophagus and stomach. He has published over 230 articles, 30 book chapters and has a H-Index of 39.
Professor Mönig studied medicine at the University of Münster (Germany), and obtained a Doctorate in medicine (MD) in 1993. He obtained the title of specialist in general surgery in 1998, and specialist in digestive surgery in 2006. He trained in general surgery at the University Hospital of Cologne (Germany) with Professor Pichlmaier (specialist in oesophageal surgery) and with Professor Höschler (specialist in oesophageal surgery), where he was nominated Consultant surgeon in 2001. Professor Mönig was appointed Privat-Docent at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne in 2003, and then Professor of the Universities of Cologne in 2008. In 2016, Professor Mönig obtained his European specialist degree in oeso-gastric surgery.
Moreover, Professor Mönig obtained the title of Master of Health Business Administration (MBA) in 2010 at the University of Nuremberg (Germany).
Professor Mönig funded the first “centre of excellence” in Germany for oesophageal surgery at the University Hospitals of Cologne (Germany), where approximately 200 oesophagectomies are performed per year. Professor Mönig is also one of the two specialists auditors of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery for the certification of centers practicing esophageal and stomach surgery. He is a member of the Swiss Society of Surgery and the Swiss Society of Visceral Surgery. For over 15 years , he actively participated in numerous European randomized trials in the field of esophageal and gastric cancer. Professor Mönig is notably the co-investigator of the randomized trial RENAISSANCE-FLOT5.
Further, he is member of the executive board of the OESO Foundation, and organized the 14th World Conference of the society in Geneva in 2017, bringing together more than 500 participants from 30 countries. Professor Mönig is also member of the Board of Directors of the Upper Digestive Tube Surgical Association (CAOGI) of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV) and of numerous other international societies. Professor Mönig is the surgeon in charge of the Oncology Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie , AI ) of the German Cancer Society (Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft, DKG) and expert for the STREAM study group of the IOA. Finally, he is member of the group in charge of the definition and drafting of the German S3 guidelines for the management of oesophagal and gastric cancers.