University Hospital Münster: world-class quality

University Hospital Münster is the largest multidisciplinary medical centre in Europe, with an excellent reputation and a well-earned international standing. The hospital is classified as a maximum-care facility. It has 1,450 beds; in 2013 the hospital treated 58,646 inpatients and 496,331 outpatients. University Hospital Münster is an interdisciplinary association of more than 40 clinical and outpatient departments, medical centres and institutes.

The hospital employs 8,700 staff: 106 professors, 1,736 doctors and research fellows, 2,336 nurses and care assistants, and 1,908 technical staff. The hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic, laboratory and treatment technology.

The hospital's history goes back to 1774, which makes University Hospital Münster one of the oldest hospitals in Germany. Alongside its clinical work, the hospital is widely known around the world as a centre of advanced science.
Every year University Hospital Münster treats thousands of international patients from the post-Soviet countries, the Arab world, Europe and the Americas.

Well-known departments of the hospital:

1. Department of Transplant Medicine | Klinik für Transplantationsmedizin, headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Hartmut Schmidt. It treats patients with diseases of the liver, the pancreas and/or the small intestine. Its main areas of clinical specialisation are  genetic diagnostics, the treatment of liver and metabolic diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma and bile duct cancer, liver transplantation and cell therapy.
2. Centre for Reproductive Medicine |Kinderwunschzentrum Münster, headed by Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Andreas Schüring).
3. Department of Cardiac Surgery | Klinik für Herzchirurgie, headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Sven Martens. The centre specialises in minimally invasive cardiac surgery performed without a heart-lung machine, which means less surgical trauma, a shorter postoperative recovery period and a minimal number of complications.
4. Department of Neurosurgery | Klinik für Neurochirurgie, headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Walter Stummer. All types of neurosurgical operations are performed here, including procedures that use electronic digital navigation systems and innovative surgical techniques. The department's leading areas of specialisation are the treatment of brain and spinal cord tumours and of neurovascular diseases, paediatric neurosurgery, pituitary surgery, functional stereotaxy and stereotactic radiotherapy, the treatment of gliomas (glioblastomas, anaplastic gliomas, early-stage gliomas) and of malformations (aneurysms, angiomas, cavernomas), as well as of arteriovenous fistulas of the dura mater and the cerebral cortex. Minimally invasive methods are used with great success, in particular endovascular catheterisation and vascular stenting to stabilise the vessels.
5. Department of Haematology, Haemostaseology, Oncology and Pneumology | Medizinische Klinik A Hämatologie, Hämostaseologie, Onkologie und Pneumologie, headed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang E. Berdel, is renowned for its advances in the treatment of small cell lung cancer and in the treatment of acute leukaemias with subsequent transplantation of bone marrow stem cells and peripheral blood cells.