Farewell to PD Dr. Henrike Lenzen

PD Dr. Henrike Lenzen has been the new Chief Physician in the Clinical Department of Gastroenterology and Diabetology at Braunschweig Municipal Hospital since 1 September 2024.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Henrike Lenzen studied Human medicine in Hanover and Oxford, England, and then began her further training under Prof. Dr. Michael Manns. She took her first scientific steps under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ursula Seidler in the field of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Her clinical training took her through various areas of our Clinical Department, including the liver and intestinal outpatient clinic and, in particular, endoscopy, to which she remained attached. In 2018, she moved to Essen University Hospital, where she took over as Head of Interventional Endoscopy. There, she worked hard to reorganize the endoscopy department.

She returned to the MHH in summer 2020 and initially headed the endoscopy department together with Prof. Dr. Torsten Voigtländer, whose overall management she took over after his departure in January 2022. She was also in charge of the CED department. Since 2023, she has been the senior consultant for the functional areas alongside Prof. Dr. Benjamin Maasoumy. PD Dr. Henrike Lenzen has recently focused her scientific work in particular on primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), where she is very active in the international study group and recently published an important paper as last author in Liver International. She devotes particular attention to interventional endoscopy, in which she has made a name for herself nationally and was elected to the advisory board of the endoscopy section of our specialist society DGVS.

Since September 1, 2024, she has been Head of the Clinical Department of Gastroenterology and Diabetology at Braunschweig Municipal Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Germany. The Braunschweig Municipal Hospital is also a teaching hospital of the MHH, so we will remain in close contact, both in the care of joint patients and in teaching and science. I am very grateful to PD Dr. Henrike Lenzen for her great commitment to our Clinical Department and the perseverance with which she has tackled many, sometimes difficult, tasks. We have achieved a lot together!