Prof. Alexander Arlt graduated from Christian Albrecht University in Kiel and then received his medical training in internal medicine, intensive medicine, gastroenterology and endoscopy at the university hospital of Kiel Germany under the guidance of Prof. Ulrich Fölsch, Prof. Stefan Schreiber and Prof. Anette Fritscher-Ravens. He was leading senior physician of the internal medicine department before he was appointed to his current position as head of gastroenterology and endoscopy at the university hospital in
Oldenburg. The focus of the clinical and scientific work is deciphering resistance mechanism of GI-cancer and endoscopic management of hepato-pancreatico-biliary diseases.