New swing in the UKSH: two top positions filled with experts!

New swing in the UKSH: two top positions filled with experts!

Kiel, Deutschland - Kiel/Lübeck. At the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) there was a significant change of management on Friday: Professor Maximiliane Schlenz-Helmke takes over the management of the Clinic for Dental Prosthetics on the Kiel campus. She succeeds Professor Matthias Kern, who retired after 27 years. The clinic was temporarily led by Professor Hans-Jürgen Wenz. Schlenz-Helmke brings an impressive career that began studying dentistry in Gießen, followed by a doctorate and habilitation.

The new director has also acquired a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in dental prosthetics in Greifswald and trained in health management. Your expertise lies in age tooth medicine. Previously, she was a senior physician at the University Hospital Gießen and Marburg. In Kiel, she plans to improve the digital infrastructure and to drive the interdisciplinary implant-prothetic reconstruction of oral defects in order to optimize both aesthetics and function.

new impulses in the pathology

At the UKSH campus Lübeck, Professor Verena-Wilbeth Sailer takes over the directorate of the Institute of Pathology, a position that she has been providing temporarily since January 2023. Sailer, who studied medicine in Berlin and did his doctorate in Greifswald, has made a name for itself through her research on molecular changes in advanced carcinomas, especially prostate carcinomas. After a research stay in New York, she habilitated in 2018 and was appointed W2 professor for translational pathology a year later.