Prof. Dr. med. Frank Tacke
Department Head, Dept. of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Charité Mitte (ccm) & Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK)Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Augustenburger Platz 1
10117 (CCM)/13353 (CVK) Berlin
Campus / internal address:
Mittelallee 11
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Expertise
- Monocyte and macrophage biology
- Gut-Liver-Axis
- Fatty liver diseases
- Hepatobiliary carcinoma
- Intensive care medicine
- Clinical and experimental hepatology
- Liver immunology
- Highly cited researcher 2020
- Highly cited researcher 2021
- Highly cited researcher 2022
Additional information
Scientific Degrees:
- German board certification Internal Medicine (10/2008)
- German board certification Gastroenterology (01/2011)
- German board certification Intensive Care Medicine (07/2012)
- German board certification Infectious Diseases (11/2014)
- Fellow of the European Board of Transplant Medicine (UEMS) (07/2017)
- German board certification Endocrinology & Diabetology (01/2019)
Memberships in Professional Societiies:
- American Association for the Study of the Liver (AASLD)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Infektiologie (DGI)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (DGIM)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internistische Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin (DGIIN)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS)
- Deutsche Leberstiftung (assoziierter Wissenschaftler)
- European Academy for Tumor Immunology, International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS)
- European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
Participation on Guidelines: DGVS Liver transplantation (working group leader), EASL Hepatitis B (core group), DGVS Hepatitis B (working group leader), DGVS Autoimmune liver diseases (working group leader), DGVS Gastrointestinal bleeding (working group leader), DGVS Pancreatitis (member)
Awards and scholarships:
- Course Director, EASL NAFLD Summit, Dublin, Ireland (2022) )
- Highly Cited Researcher 2020, 2021, 2022 („Cross-field“), Web of Science (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Course Director, AASLD-EASL joint conference “Endpoints in NAFLD” (2018)
- Course Director, Basic Science Symposium “Targetable pathways in liver diseases“, International Liver Congress, Paris, France (2018)
- Course Director, Postgraduate Course “Multidisciplinary Hepatology”, International Liver Congress 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017)
- Course Director, EASL School of Hepatology, Aachen, Germany (2017)
- Rising Star Award (United European Gastroenterology Federation) (2011)
- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Award, RWTH Aachen, Germany (2008)
- Young Investigator Award, European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (2005)
Vita Prof. Dr. med. Frank Tacke
University education
- 2002 – 2004 Ph.D. Post-graduate Program “Molecular Medicine”, Hannover
- 1994 – 2001 Medical School, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany (clinical electives: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
- 1997 – 1998 Research Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Scientific degrees
- 2019 W3 professor Internal Medicine Hepatology/Gastroenterology, Charité
- 2014 Master of Health and Business Administration (MHBA)
- 2012 W2 professor of Hepato-Gastroenterology, RWTH Aachen
- 2007 Habilitation and venia legendi, Internal Medicine, RWTH Aachen,
- 2004 PhD thesis Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Medical School Hannover
- 2002 MD thesis, Hematology & Oncology, Medical School Hannover
Professional career
- Since 2019 Department Head, CCM/CVK, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 2019 German board certification Endocrinology & Diabetology
- 2014 German board certification Infectious Diseases
- 2012 German board certification Intensive Care Medicine
- 2011 German board certification Gastroenterology
- 2008 German board certification Internal Medicine
- 2006 – 2019 Medical Department III, RWTH University Aachen
- 2004 – 2006 Post Doc Fellow, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- 2001 – 2004 PhD and Internal Medicine Residency, Hannover Medical School
Functions / offices
Selected professional service duties:
2022 European guideline coordinator “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease” (EASL) (2022)
2019 – until now Co-Editor Journal of Hepatology (IF 25.1)
2020 – until now National Guideline coordinator “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease” (DGVS)
2016 – 2021 Co-Editor Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (Section Gastroenterology, DGIM - Clinical Competence)
2020 – 2021 Guideline coordinator “Covid-19 and Liver transplantation” (DGVS)
2016 – 2017 Visiting Professor (10%), Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Oslo, Norway
2017 – 2019 EASL International Liver Foundation (EILF), Foundation Committee
2014 – 2019 Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), in a final step (2017-2019): Vice Secretary General
Editorial board:
Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol (since 2020)
