Profile Miller Karl, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery

Karl A. Miller, MD FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

General Surgeon, Bariatric Surgeon

Profile
Date of Birth: March 16, 1958
Birthplace: Salzburg (Austria)
1983 M.D., University of Innsbruck, Austria
1984–1985 Internship General Hospital Salzburg, Austria

1985 First Aid Medicine

1985-1991 General surgery training at the General Hospital Salzburg, Austria

1989 Officer in the Austrian Army
1991 Qualified general surgeon
1995–2000 Chief Resident at the 2nd. Surgical Department, General Hospital Salzburg, Austria
1996 Expert Witness of General Surgery

1996 Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Innsbruck, Austria 09 12 1996
1996 Member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery

1996 Member of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity
1996 onward; Faculty of the European Surgical Institute: Minimal Invasive Techniques in Visceral Surgery and Bariatric Surgery

2001onward; Head of the Surgical Department Krankenhaus Hallein

2002 onward; International Advisory Board - Saad Hospital Al Khobar

2003 onward; Associate Editor of "Obesity Surgery"

2005 onward; Advisory Board "World Clinics and Hospitals

2005 IVOW Clinical Advisory Board

2006 Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program of the Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg

2006 Member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)

2006 Fellow of the American College of Surgeons F.A.C.S.

Contact

Hallein Clinic

Surgical Department

Buergermeisterstr. 34

A-5400 Hallein

Tel: +43-6245-799-360

Fax:+43-6245-799-361

e-mail: chirurgie@kh-hallein.at

Experience

Performed obesity (bariatric) surgery as early as 1994

Received specific obesity surgery training at Iowa University with Dr. E. Mason

Performed laparoscopic surgery as early as June 1989

Developed and standardized the surgical technique for the laparoscopic application of gastric banding (pars flaccida technique)

Experienced in laparoscopic gastric surgery and laparoscopic functional surgery of the stomach (Nissen fundoplicatio)

Regularly performs live procedures in front of audiences in the following countries: Austria, Australia, Hungary, South Africa, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Cyprus ...More >>

Teaches at the European Surgical Institute, Hamburg, Germany, at the Laparoscopic Morbid Obesity Surgery Masterclass, Elancourt, France and Obesity Surgery for the Austrian Professional Surgical Association

Organized 20 international workshops per year since 2003 where over 380 surgeons worldwide were given "hands-on" training on the laparoscopic application of gastric banding and gastric bypass

Organized the World Congress on Obesity Surgery 1999 in Salzburg Austria

Organized the International Alpine Obesity Surgery Expert Meeting since 2003

Has given over 150 lectures worldwide

Published more than 80 medical articles and proceedings in journals around the world including the American Journal of Surgery, Annals of Surgery, Diabetes, Intensive Care Medicine, Surgical Endoscopy, Obesity Surgery, Journal de Coelio-Chirurgie, Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy, Hepato-Gastroenterology ...More >>

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