CURRICULUM VITAE Personal details Name: Bruno Markus ...

Specially selected abstracts
PD Dr. med. Bruno M. Balsiger | Facharzt FMH für Gastroenterologie
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Annual meeting May 17 - 20, 1998, New
Orleans, USA
SSAT and Ross Resident’s conference May 16th 1998, invitation and nomination (one
of the best twenty abstracts) for the abstract:
Small bowel transplantation (SBT) alters non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) inhibition
in longitudinal smooth muscle of the rat jejunum.
European Society for Surgical Research, 34th congress, April 22-24, 1999, Bern, Switzerland
Nomination for Walter Brendel Session (second highest scoring abstract out of 500)
with the abstract :
Chronic lack of extrinsic neural input increases nitric oxide (NO) independent inhibition
after rat small bowel transplantation (SBT).
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Annual meeting May 16 - 19, 1999, Orlando,
USA
SSAT and Ross Resident’s conference May 15th 1998, invitation and nomination (one
of the best twenty abstracts) for the abstract:
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass as a remedial operation for gastroesophageal reflux (GER)
after vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG)
Day of clinical research, University of Bern, Nov 13, 2002, Bern, Switzerland: third highest
scoring of work performed by medical students (Seiler R) Muscular and neuronal
adrenergic receptor mechanisms in rat ileal longitudinal muscle contractility.
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Annual meeting May 18 - 21, 2003, Orlando,
USA
SSAT residents and fellows research conference May 17th 2003, invitation and nomination
(one of the best twenty abstracts) for the abstract:
Acute pancreatitis induces ileus by upregulating TNF and Nitric Oxide in the small
intestine.
Grants and scholarships
1996-97 Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Bern:
support for : The effects of small bowel autotransplantation on jejunal and ileal circular
smooth muscle function in vitro in dogs.
1997 Astra Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland: support for: The effects of small bowel
autotransplantation on jejunal and ileal circular smooth muscle function in vitro in dogs.
1997 Novartis Nutrition: support for: The effects of small bowel autotransplantation
on jejunal and ileal circular smooth muscle function in vitro in dogs.
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