Professor Dr Annette Fritscher-Ravens

Aachen Medical School, Germany: Approbation 1984 in Medicine Aachen Medical School, Germany: MD 1985 in Pediatrics; Regierungspräsident Hannover, Germany Examination in Internal Medicine 1991: Internal Medicine Regierungspräsident Hannover, Germany Examination in Gastroenterology 1992: Gastroenterology University Hamburg, Germany Habilitation 2001 in Gastroenterology University Hamburg, Germany Full Professorship in Gastroenterology, University Hamburg, Germany 2005 Awards: 2004: Popular Science Award , New York 2015: Rome Foundation Ray Clouse Prize for the Best Research Publication in Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders 2018: German Endoscopy Society Award 2018 American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Ambassador for Myanmar s. 2015 Recent publications: Fritscher-Ravens A, Pflaum T, Mösinger M, Ruchay Z, Röcken C, Milla PJ, Das M, Böttner M, Wedel T, Schuppan D.Many Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome Have Atypical Food Allergies Not Associated With Immunoglobulin E. Gastroenterology 2019 Jul;157(1):109-118 Fritscher-Ravens A, Schuppan D, Ellrichmann M, Schoch S, Röcken C, Brasch J, Bethge J, Böttner M, Klose J, Milla PJ. Confocal endomicroscopy shows food-associated changes in the intestinal mucosa of patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology. 2014; 145:1012-1020. Ellrichmann M, Dhar S, Hadeler KG, Seehusen F, Cuming T, Feßler AT, Niemann H, Schwarz S, Fritscher-Ravens A. Risk of infection after iatrogenic perforation of the gut wall? Evaluation of preventive strategies in a randomized controlled animal trial. Surg Endosc. 2015 Oct 20. [Epub ahead of print] Fritscher-Ravens A, Scherbakov P, Bufler P, Torroni F, Ruuska T, Nuutinen H, Thomson M, Tabbers M, Milla P. The feasibility of wireless capsule endoscopy in detecting small intestinal pathology in children under the age of 8 years: a multicentre European study. Gut 2009 Nov;58(11):1467-72. 107. Sethi A, Ellrichmann M, Dhar S, Hadeler KG, Kahle E, Seehusen F, Klapper W, Habib N, Fritscher-Ravens A. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided lymph node ablation with a novel radiofrequency ablation probe: feasibility study in an acute porcine model. Endoscopy. 2014 May;46(5):411-5. 106. Fritscher-Ravens A.Training model for endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of lymph- nodes. Gastroenterol Hepatol (N Y). 2013 Jun; 380-2. 105. Romero-Castro R, Ellrichmann M, Ortiz-Moyano C, Subtil-Inigo JC, Junquera-Florez F, Gornals JB, Repiso-Ortega A, Vila-Costas J, Marcos-Sanchez F, Muñoz-Navas M, Romero-Gomez M, Brullet-Benedi E, Romero-Vazquez J, Caunedo-Alvarez A, Pellicer-Bautista F, Herrerias-Gutierrez JM, Fritscher-Ravens A. EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy for the treatment of gastric varices: a multicenter study. Gastrointest Endosc. 2013;78(5):711-21.

Gastroenterology in adults and children with special interest in endoscopy and interventional endoscopy In recent years she has successfully developed a research scheme for IBS and food allergy/sensitivities and is now seeing many IBS patients. She published the research in IBS and atypical food allergy  in the esteemed journal "Gastroenterology". In 2015 and 2020, these were awarded with the Ray Clouse prize for the best research publication in neurogastroenterology by the Rome Foundation. In 2018 she was awarded with the "German Endoscopy award" of the German Society of Gastroenterology as the first female in this field.