Dr. Nils H. Thoennissen, MD

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Specialty: Blood related – Hematology

Hospital: CBC Health

Resume of Dr. Nils H. Thoennnissen, MD

With more than 20 years of experience in evidence-based medicine and over 14 years clinical experience in hemotherapy including blood transfusions, as well as stem cell transplantation, Dr. Thoennissen is an international specialist in cancer, Chronic Degenerative diseases, and regenerative medicine with a doctoral thesis in neurological research, graded with “Summa cum laude”.

Education

Westfalische-wilhelms-university of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Great Britain

Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Cedars-Sinai-Medical-Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Residency and Fellowship

Resident Department of Hematology, Oncology & Transplantation Prof. W.E. Berdel, University Hospital of Munster, Germany

IZKF-research fellowship Laboratory of Molecular Hematology, Prof. C. Muller-Tidow, University Hospital of Munster, Germany

DFG-research fellowship (2 years) Division of Hematology/Oncology Prof. H. P. Koeffler Cedars-Sinai Medical-Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Resident Department of Hematology, Oncology & Transplantation Prof. W.E. Berdel, University Hospital of Munster, Germany

Career Highlights

More than 14 years clinical experience in hemotherapy including blood transfusions, as well as stem cell transplantation.

Spent 3 years in Los Angeles, USA, at Cedars-Sinali-Medical-Center, UCLA for research.

Author of more than 40 high-ranking clinical and scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals.

Investigator and sub-investigator of several clinical studies.

Past consultant of Hem/Onc Dpt. And Emergency Dpt. In the university clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

Awards

Doctoral thesis, University of Munster, Germany (WWU) summa cum laude

1st prize for innovation, University Hsp. Of Munster, Germany 09/2006

Travel Award 51st Congress of American Society of Hematology (ASH) 12/2009

Travel Award 52nd Congress of American Society of Hematology (ASH) 12/2010

Sponsorship Award for leukemic research University of Munster, Germany (WWU) 06/12

Best Post Award – Society for Gastroenterology, Germany, Nicotinamide and its therapeutical effects on colitis in a mouse model 12/2012

Best of DGHO – Translational Medicine, Exome sequencing of paired chronic-blast phase samples in myeloproliferative neoplasms reveals high frequency of rare germline sequence variants in TYK2 and novel blast phase-restricted mutations 10/2014