Name: Harald P. Hoensch

Position:

• Retired Chief physician of Gastroenterology
• Specialist of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
• Specialist of GI-oncology
• Private physician of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
• AGAF (Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association), since 2007

Title: Prof. Dr. med.

E-mail: h.p.hoensch@t-online.de

Address:

Recent Papers:

• The value of flavonoids for the human nutrition: short review and perspectives. Clinical Nutrition Experimental. 2015; 3: 8-14
• Neue Konzepte bei chronisch entzündlichen Darmkrankheiten. Praxis Magazin 9/2015
• Disparities of conjugating protective enzyme activities in the colon of patients with adenomas and carcinomas, World J Gastroenterol 2013; 19(36): 6020-6025; DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v19.i36.6020.
• Poster Price, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Klinische Pharmakologie: Down regulation of inducible inflammatory genes of colon cancer cells, Dresden 2012.
• Emerging role of bioflavonoids in gastroenterology, World J Gastrointestinal Oncology 2011, 3(5): 71-74.
• Flavonoide zur Krebsprävention im Darm. MedKlin 2010; 105: 554-559.
• Poster Price Falk Workshop Mainz Germany September 17, 2008. Strategies of Cancer Prevention in Gastroenterology
• Flavonoide in der Prävention von Darmneoplasien. Prävention und Versorgungsforschung, Springer Medizin Verlag Heidelberg 2008; 691-704
• Prospective cohort comparison of flavonoid treatment in patients with resected colorectal cancer to prevent recurrence. World J Gastroenterol. 2008, 14(4):2187-2193
• Expression of the glutathione enzyme system of human colon mucosa by localisation, gender and age. Current Medical Research and Opinion. 22, 1075-1084, 2006
• Potential Role of Flavonoids in the Prevention of Intestinal Neolasia, Int. J. of Gastrointestinal Cancer, vol. 35, no. 3, 187-196, 2005.
• Influence of clinical factors, diet, and drugs on the human upper gastrointestinal glutathione system; GUT 2002, 50:235-240.
• Letter to the Editor (PostScript), RE: Influence of clinical factors, drug use, and food intake on the glutathione system; GUT 2003, 52:154-155.

Research Activities:

• AIO-PRV-0109 Study of the Working Group Tumor Prevention, German Cancer Association: Dietary supplementation with bioflavonoids for the prevention of recurrence of neoplasia in patients with resected colorectal cancer. (University of Mainz, IZKS.)
• Clinical Trials.gov Identifier: NCT00609310 : Flavonoids to prevent recurrences in patients with resected colorectal cancer or colorectal adenomas (validation study)
• Flavonoid plasma levels in patients on oral flavonoid treatment (technical university Dresden Germany, department of clinical pharmacology)
• Glutathion-system in gut and liver, protective antioxidative, antitoxic enzymes to prevent neoplasia of the gut by induction with dietary flavonoids.
• Dr.Thesis Mohamad Adam : Verlaufskontrolle bei Patienten nach koloskopischer Polypektomie zur Erfassung von Rezidiven unter Flavonoid-Exposition 2014.
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kruis, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Kalk, Köln, Germany

Academic Activities:

• Association with University of Dresden (teaching position)
• Association with University of Nijmegen (Netherlands), GI-department (W. Peters)
• Department of Clinical Pharmacology Dresden (research)
• Collaboration with University of Erlangen, Germany, GI-department
• (postgraduate activities)
• Referee for "Carcinogenesis" and "Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine"
• Member of Editorial Board of World J Gastroenterol

Clinical Service:

• Full certification for complete training of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
• Consulting physician : Marienhospital Darmstadt Germany

Professional Activities:

• Examiner and chairman for physician's certification in Internal Medicine (board exam) Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• AGA Community

Cooperative Activities:

• Prof. Dr. Benno Weigmann, 1. Med. Klinik, Forschungscampus, Universität Erlangen, Germany
• Dr. Lutz Edler, Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
• Dr.Wilbert Peters, Research Chief, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Elke Richling, Lebensmittelchemie, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany

Memberships:

• American Gastroenterological Association ( AGA )
• German Association of Digestive and Metabolic Diseases ( Gastro-Liga)
• German Association of Internal Medicine
• Working Group of Hospital Heads of Gastroenterology (ALGK)
• Stiftung Lebensblicke, Otto-Hahn-Str.3, D-69190 Walldorf (http://www.lebensblicke.de)
• Gastro-Liga Germany
• German Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group (GISG)
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Präventive und Integrative Onkologie (PRIO) der Deutschen Krebsgesellschaft