Professor Dr. Samir Said, MD (University of Berlin, Charité)

Professor of general, visceral, vascular surgery, proctologist and advanced minimal access surgeon

After the co-development of the Transanal Endo­scop­ic Micro­surgery “TEM” at the beginning of the nineties and the subsequent establishment of the Mini­mal Inva­sive Surgery “MIS” in the abdomen and chest at the University of Cologne, Minimal Invasive Surgery  has  since become my clinical and scientific focus throughout my further career.

At the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, as part of my doctoral work, I had the opportunity to contri­bute to the develop­ment of the transanal endo­scop­ish microsurgery system, which is used in inter­disci­plinary appli­cations all over the world.

 

This has resulted in me being the main surgeon with the highest clinical experience in transanal endo­scopic micro­surgery for the removal of large polyps and small cancerous tumours in the rectum without an abdominal incision for many years in Cologne, Berlin, Koblenz and the surrounding area.

As part of my post­doctoral thesis (habilitation work) I deve­loped different lapar­oscopic instru­ments and a new minimally invasive surgical technique on the aortoiliac arteries in the 1990s.

Main surgical focus

Main surgical focus

Open abdominal surgery

All operations by means of open abdominal surgery with optimised peri­opera­tive care according to the "ERAS" (enhanced recovery after surgery) method. Essential elements of "ERAS" are: Gentle opera­tion technique, opti­mal oral nutrition management­ment, optimal and targeted pain therapy, modern anaesthesia methods, early and conse­quent reha­bili­tation after surgery.

Minimally invasive surgery

  • Laparo­scopic hiato­plasty with and without re-inforcement according to the BICORN technique
  • Laparo­scopic appendectomy 
  • Laparo­scopic gall­bladder removal (cholecystec­tomy)
  • Laparo­scopic inguinal hernia operation (TAPP)
  • Laparo­scopic and con­ven­tional (via open surgery) incisional hernia repair with mesh re-inforce­ment
  • Laparo­scopic dis­solving of small intestine and other ab­domi­nal organs  that cause com­pli­ca­tions such as small bowel ob­struc­tion (laparo­scopic ad­hesio­lysis)
  • Laparo­scopic surgery of diver­ticular disease (resection of sigmoid diverticulitis)
  • Laparo­scopic onco­logical surgery of the large intestine (colon) and rectum with sys­tematic lymph­node dis­section (removal of lymphnodes) according to international cancer related criterias (onco­logical colo­rectal surgery)
  • Transanal endo­scopic micro­surgery for removal of large rectal polyps and small cancer tumours (rectal carcinoma) without open or laparo­scopic surgery.
  • Conven­tional and laparo­scopic surgery for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (CED).
  • Splenic diseases: Laparo­scopic splen­ectomy

Colorectal surgery (surgery on the colon and rectum)

  • Laparo­scopic sigmoid resection (colon surgery) for sigmoid diverticulitis
  • Laparo­scopic colon and rectal surgery with systemic lym­phade­nectomy of colon and rectal cancer 
  • Conventional and laparo­scopic surgery for chronic inflammatory bowel disease in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (CED)
  • Laparo­scopic rectal prolapse surgery

Proctology

Obesty surgery

Laparo­scopic sleeve gastrec­tomy, gastric bypass surgery and con­version of sleeve gastrec­tomy 

In endocrinology

  • Conven­tional and endo­scopically assisted thyroid operation
  • Conven­tional parat­hyroid surgery
  • Laparo­scopic adrenal gland surgery

Membership

  • German Society for Surgery (DGCH)
  • German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV)
  • German Society for Coloproctology (DGK)
  • Vice-Chairman of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cancer Society
Pioneering in the surgical field

Pioneering in the surgical field

At the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties, I had the opportunity to help develop the transanal endo­scopic microsurgery system as part of my doctoral thesis.

Both in Cologne, Berlin, Koblenz and surrounding areas, I was the surgeon with the highest clini­cal experience in transanal endo­scopi­scopy “TEM” surgery.

As part of my post­doctoral thesis in the nineties I had deve­loped different laparo­scopic instru­ments and a new laparo­scopic ab­dominal aortoiliac opera­tion technique.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Study

  • 12/1978-4/1979
    Chemistry and psychology studies at
    UCLA-Californian State Bakersfield, USA
  • 4/1979-5/1985
    Study of human medicine at the University of Cologne with license to practice medicine

Professional career

  • 3/1986 - 6/1994
    Scientific and clinical staff at the University Hospital of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Vascular and Trauma Surgery in Cologne (Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. H. Pichlmaier/Prof. Dr. K. E. Rehm)
  • 8/1994 - 7/2001
    Scientific and clinical staff at the University Hospital of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Charité Berlin (Director: Prof. Dr. J.M. Müller
    Senior Physician at the University Hospital and Polyclinic for General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Charité, Berlin ( Prof. Dr. J. Müller)
  • 7/2001 - 1/2023
    Chief Surgeon of the Surgical Department of General- and Visceral Surgery at Ev. Stift St. Martin Hospital in Koblenz, Gemeinschafts­klinikum Mittelrhein (Joint Hospital)

Scientific work

  • 6/1990
    Introduction of laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery at the Surgical University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
  • 1988 - 1994
    Operative and scientific responsibility for transanal endoscopic microsurgery “TEM”, main surgeon in Cologne and surrounding area
  • 1988 - 1994
    Head of the proctological consultation hour at the Surgical Department of the University Hospital of Cologne
  • 1992 - 2000
    Conception and development of universally applicable endoscopic instruments for videoendoscopic aortoiliac vascular surgery and laparoscopic surgery.
  • 1994 - 2015
    Leading of national and international trainings for (prospective) surgeons regarding laparoscopic aortoiliac surgery, basic knowledge in minimal invasive surgery in the abdomen and TEM (transanal endoscopic microsurgery) - technique
  • 2007 - 2014
    Conception and development of an electro-energetic logbook for structured further education in surgery.

Doctoral thesis

28/07/1988
“The transanal endoscopic rectal operation in animal experiments”.
Surgical University Hospital of Cologne
Professor Dr. med. Gerhard Bueß, Professor Dr. Dr. H. Pichlmaier

Habilitation (postdoctoral thesis)

18/03/1996
“Videoendoscopic vascular surgery in the pelvic floor:
Theoretical and experimental development of a new surgical technique”.
Award of the teaching license for surgery at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Charité

04/09/2001
Granting of the certificate for the title “Professor” by Humboldt University Berlin, the President.

Press and citations

Press and citations

  • 14.07.2018 · eJManager
    The most -Cited Works in Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery
  • April 2014 · Can J Surg
    Transanal endoscopic microsurgery: a review
  • 2012 · Perm J.
    Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery for Rectal Tumors : A review
    Since its  introduction in 1983, transanal endoscopic microsurgery ( TEM) has emerged as a safe and effective method to treat rectal lesions including benign Tumors, early rectal cancer, and rectal fistulas and strictures…
  • 2012, Dissertation by Mr. W. Waldemar:
    TEM - Transanal endoscopic microsurgery of adenomas and carcinomas of the rectum, Clinical results and late outcomes of 623 consecutive patients.
    "...by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Buess, the surgical procedure was essentially continued there by Prof. Said, to whose working group Prof. Zieren belonged..."
    Read... (German)
  • 2007 · Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica
    Transanal endoscopic microsurgery ( TEM) vs radical surgery (RS) in the…
  • 2001 - Minimally Invasive Surgery
    Value of transanal  endoscopic microsurgery in the treatment of rectal cancer.
    Said - Clinic and Polyclinic for General,  Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Charité .
  • October 1996 · Diseaese of the Colon & Rectum
    Transanal endoscopic microsurgery
  • 1996 - The Surgeon, Said. S
    10-year experience with transanal endoscopic microsurgery: histopathological and clinical analyses.
  • 1995 · Surgical Endoscopy
    Transanal endoscopic microsurgery in large, sessile adenomas of the rectum
    The clinical and Long-term results of 286 cases encountered from 1983 to 1993 in our Department of Surgery…….
  • 1994 · Ann. Chir. Gynaecol.
    Minimal invasive surgery in the local Treatment of rectal Cancer.
    Said S. et al
  • Januar  1993 ·  Surgery
    Technique and clinical results of endorectal surgery
    Said et al
    At the Surgical Department of the University of Cologne, a new System has been developed for transanal endoscopic Surgery that allows all the conventional surgical techniques within the entire rectal cavity…
  • 1983 · Leber Magen Darm
    Transanal endoscopic surgery of the rectum – testing a new method in animal Experiments –
    Bues G, Theis R , Hutterer F, Pichlmaier h; Pelz c, Holfeld T, Said S, Isselhard W.
    Surgery of the lower third of the rectum can be done without difficulty through the anus using an endoscopical Approach…