Alanna Ebigbo

Title: Dr.
Position: Specialist in internal medicine, gastroenterologist
Organization: University Hospital Augsburg
Country: Germany

Training and Work experience

Since January, 2018 – Head of the endoscopy department at the University Hospital, Augsburg
Since September, 2010 – Senior Physician III. Medical clinic at the University Hospital, Augsburg
November, 2004 to September, 2010 – Further training to become a specialist in internal medicine at the University Hospital, Augsburg
November, 2003 to November, 2004 – Doctor in internship (AiP) and PHD studies (Cryptosporidium parvum as a cause of diarrhea in AIDS patients, Nigeria) at the University Hospital, Wurzburg
May, 1997 to October 2003 – Study of human medicine at the Julius Maximilians University, Wurzburg
Since 2010 – Teaching:

  • PJ instruction and student representative
  • Medical didactics; Curriculum development elective endoscopy
  • Telemedicine teaching for medical informatics
  • Endoscopy teaching on the simulator
  • Clinical longitudinal course
  • Sonography courseTeaching endoscopy for ESGE and WEO at St. Paul’s Millennium
  • Hospital, Addis Ababa and at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu

Endoscopic Research:

  • Use of artificial intelligence in endoscopic diagnostics and therapy
  • Endoscopic resection techniques (ESD, EMR and underwater EMR)
  • Use of planimetry in peroral endoscopy myotomy
  • Endoscopic Cascade Guidelines for Resource-Poor Regions (ESGE/WEO and WGO Joint Research Project)