Biography: Christine Stier, M.D.
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BIOGRAPHY
Biography: Christine Stier, M.D. Christine Stier 1 Published online: 19 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Dr. Christine Stier is a bariatric surgeon, who played a key role in introducing bariatric endoscopy in Germany. Her commitment to this new sub-specialization in bariatric surgery has made her well known worldwide. She is also an active leader in the International Federation for Surgery of Obesity (IFSO). Dr. Stier was born on 3 July 1964 in Dingolfing, a little town in East Bavaria, Germany. From her early childhood, she wanted to become “a doctor.” She studied in Munich at the Technical University. In 1990, she passed the physician examination at the associated university hospital “Rechts der Isar.” During her studies, she was significantly influenced by the local Chief of Surgery, Prof. Joerg Ruediger Siewert, as well as by the local chief of gastroenterology Prof. Meinhard
* Christine Stier [email protected] 1
Bariatric Surgery, Obesity Center NRW, Krankenhaus Street 42, 50354 Huerth, Germany
Classen, at whose department she accomplished her doctorate. Not surprisingly, her clinical focus from the beginning was on the gastrointestinal tract. At the Rechts der Isar Clinic, which at that time was a world leader in research and treatment of esophageal cancer, she was acquainted with innovative functional examination techniques. This led to a great interest not only in the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract, but also to a constant effort to better understand the physiology. In contrast to today, in the 1990s, it was still extremely unusual in Germany for women to receive training for surgery, and even rarer if they had children. The two sons of Dr. Stier, Raphael and Lukas, were born in 1990 and 1991. Therefore, she initially started her career at the College of Physiotherapy, affiliated to the Klinikum Rechts der Isar, where she taught anatomy and physiology. With tenacity and constant effort and the organizational talent of a single mother, she finally managed to get trained in surgery. Laparoscopic surgery and gastrointestinal endoscopy were main aspects of her training with Dr. Guenther Meyer, who aroused her special interest in surgical obesity treatment. Dr. Stier developed a keen interest in bariatric surgery when it was rarely being done. In 2004, she created one of the first centers for bariatric surgery in Germany, in Munich, under the direction of and together with Dr. Meyer alongside the world-famous Frankfurt bariatric service. To gain the optimal basis for this, she shadowed Professor Rudolf Weiner for several times at his bariatric surgery program in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen hospital. Already at that time, endoscopy was a key diagnostic tool in frequent interaction with the bariatric surgical interventions and complication management in both hospitals, Munich and Frankfurt. At that time, the first primary endoscopic procedure, the intragastric balloon, slowly entered the bariatric stage. In 2006, Dr. Stier declined an initial o
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