Dr. Maximilian Burger is a Professor of Urology and Chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Regensburg and Caritas- St. Josef Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany. He is a Fellow of the European Board of Urology and his clinical and academic career has been centered on uro-oncology.
He was trained at the University Hospitals of Mainz, Germany, and Regensburg, Germany, and board certified in 2005. He commenced his academic career in the Dept. of Urology of the University in Regensburg chaired by Prof. Wolf-Ferdinand Wieland with clinical, uro-pathological, and molecular studies on bladder cancer. He worked with the internationally renowned uro-pathologists Prof. Ferdinand Hofstädter and Prof. Arndt Hartmann of the University of Regensburg, Germany, and internationally renowned uro-oncologist Prof. Shahrokh Shariat of Weill-Cornell Medical College and UT Southwestern, USA, and the University of Vienna, Austria.
He was appointed Assistant Professor and Consultant in 2007 and Assistant Professor and Managing Consultant (“Leitender Oberarzt”) of the Dept. of Urology and Pediatric Urology of the University of Würzburg chaired by Prof. Hubertus Riedmiller, an internationally outstanding expert in urinary diversion, in 2012. The main focus of his research was the definition of indications of radical surgery in early invasive bladder cancer. He joined the Guideline Panel on Non-muscle invasive Bladder Cancer of the European Association of Urology chaired by Prof. Marco Babjuk of Prague, Czech Republic, and the German S3 Guideline Panel on Bladder Cancer in 2012.
He was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Urology of the University of Regensburg at the Caritas- St. Josef Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany in 2013. He was elected board member and head of the Section of Research Development of the o German Association of Urology (DGU) in 2014. He has authored and co-authored some 40 review articles with a cumulative IF exceeding 150 and more than 120 original manuscripts with a cumulative IF exceeding 500.