Markus Büchler

Markus Wolfgang Büchler, born in 1955 in Saarlouis, is a German surgeon and university professor who specialises in surgery of the digestive tract, the liver and bile system, and transplantation, and is best known for pioneering operations on the pancreas. He studied medicine at Heidelberg from 1974 to 1979, trained in surgery in Berlin and Ulm, and with the British surgeon John Neoptolemos founded the European Study for Pancreas Cancer Research. He held chairs of surgery in Bern from 1993 and at Heidelberg University Hospital from 2001, where his department performed more than 800 pancreatic operations a year and where the European Pancreas Center was set up at his initiative. In 2023 he moved to Lisbon to direct a new pancreatic cancer centre. He has served as president of several surgical societies and as editor of surgical journals.