New chief physician comes from LMU-Klinik - "I am pleased that we were able to win him"

Created: 01/14/2023 16:02

By: Wolfgang Schörner

Since the beginning of January, Professor Dr.

David Anz (centre), who previously worked at the LMU Clinic;

left medical director Dr.

Susanne Rogers, right Dr.

Thomas Weiler, Managing Director of the "Starnberger Kliniken".

© Wolfgang Schorner

After saying goodbye to Dr.

Florian Brändle again a chief physician of the department for internal medicine.

Brändle's successor is Dr.

David no.

The 45-year-old gastroenterology expert, researcher and professor most recently held a managerial position at the LMU Clinic in Munich.

Penzberg – "I'm delighted that we were able to win him," said Dr.

Thomas Weiler, Managing Director of the "Starnberger Kliniken", on Friday at the presentation of the new chief physician.

David Anz is an "absolutely renowned gastroenterologist" (this is about diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and the organs associated with it) and at the same time a "broadly trained internist".

He has a "high level of competence" and is "a great addition on a personal level," said Dr.

Susanne Rogers, Medical Director and Chief Physician for General and Visceral Surgery.

Her new colleague encounters a "well-prepared field in gastroenterology".

As a visceral surgeon, Rogers said, she "is nothing without a good gastroenterologist."

Which, according to Anz, is the same the other way around.

Could Penzberg become a teaching hospital?

The 45-year-old completed his training at the downtown clinic of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, where he has been working as a doctor ever since.

He has been senior physician since 2016 and site manager of the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic II on the inner-city campus since 2019.

In March 2020, Anz was also appointed adjunct professor at the Medical Faculty of the LMU, where he lectures on gastroenterology and immunology.

So could Penzberg also become a teaching hospital one day?

That, answered Managing Director Weiler, is certainly an option, at least in the network of all houses in the clinic group.

The Starnberg Clinic is already a teaching hospital of the LMU.

Anz is also active in research.

He names immunotherapy in oncology as a focus – which in turn would be a point of contact with Roche.

MZV in Penzberg should offer more services

The holding company of the "Starnberger Kliniken" wants to merge its "medical supply centers" (MVZ) at the Penzberg hospital and in Herrsching in the course of the year in order to be able to offer their services at the other location.

This was announced by managing director Thomas Weiler on Friday.

This still has to be approved by the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

The MVZ in Penzberg focuses on oncology, the MVZ in Herrsching focuses on all areas of internal medicine.

Several years ago, legislators made it possible for hospitals, which are actually only allowed to offer inpatient services, to set up such "medical care centers" in addition to resident doctors.

This gives you the opportunity to treat patients on an outpatient basis.

For Penzberg, the merger of the two MVZs at company level means that more outpatient services can be offered in the future, it said.

Preventive colonoscopies and the treatment of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases were mentioned as examples.

He is happy that he was welcomed so warmly by the nursing and medical team in Penzberg, said Anz on Friday.

When asked how he got in touch with his new employer, he named Professor Dr.

Florian Krötz, the chief physician at the Medical Clinic in Starnberg, which belongs to the same holding company as the Penzberger Haus.

Both have known each other for a long time.

Anz had worked as an assistant with Krötz in the emergency room at the LMU clinic.

And the married father of four mentioned another aspect.

He lives in Seehausen am Staffelsee, so he feels connected to the region.

Positively surprised by the high level

According to Weiler, Anz should play an "increasingly important role in gastroenterology" at the "Starnberger Kliniken", for which he sees "very good prospects" in the network of four houses.

Anz himself said that he was pleasantly surprised by the high level of gastroenterology in Penzberg.

It is comparable to that of the experts in the downtown clinic of the LMU.

His predecessor did good preparatory work.

The portfolio could certainly be supplemented with new endoscopic techniques.

Weiler thanked Dr.

Martin Herrmann, Senior Physician of Internal Medicine.

He has done an excellent job in the past few months since Brändle left.