Professor Ben Pfeifer, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director for Research & Development at Aeskulap-International AG of Switzerland heading an international medical consultancy team of oncologists, immunologists and other medical specialties that provides second opinion services and treatment recommendations for an international patient clientele. Professor Pfeifer’s medical specialties and interests are anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine, cancer immunology, clinical oncology and stem cell medicine.
Professor Pfeifer is also the founder of Integrative Cancer Care, a platform providing second opinions to cancer patients all over the world.
Professor Pfeifer’s work has been shared in over 70 publications in peer reviewed medical journals, the first textbook on integrative oncology, numerous papers at national and international medical conferences, and lectures at the prestigious “Academy of Science” in Germany, Russia, Poland and the USA. He has 47 years of medical experience in various medical fields.
He is a widely published clinician and researcher with over 70 publications in peer reviewed medical journals, the first textbook on integrative oncology, numerous papers at national and international medical conferences, and invited lectures at the prestigious Academy of Science in Germany, Russia, Poland and the USA. With more than 40 years of medical experience in various medical fields.
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Career
Specialties and Interests
Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Cancer Immunology, Integrative Oncology.
Education and professional life in Germany from 1968-1984
Medical Studies and Specialty Training at Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany; Consultant Physician at Department of Anesthesiology / Intensive Care at Humboldt-University Medical Centre; Senior Consultant Physician at the Institute of Physiology, Pathophysiology and Biochemistry at Humboldt-University, Berlin; Senior Consultant Physician in the Department of Anesthesiology / Intensive Care at Philipps University Marburg, Germany; Medical Director at the Cancer and Pain Treatment Centre, Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
Education and professional life in USA from 1985-2000
Visiting Professor and Fellow at University of South Florida, USA; Medical Director of Immunotherapy Clinic of Playas de Tijuana, Mexico; Visiting Professor at University of California, San Diego, California, USA; second specialty training at University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA; Director for Clinical Research as well as senior attending physician in Department of Anaesthesiology at the University Medical Centre, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Education and professional life in Switzerland from 2001-2014
Senior Consulting Physician at the Department of Oncology of Aeskulap Hospital, Brunnen, Switzerland; Director for Clinical Research at Aeskulap Hospital, Switzerland; Director for Research and Development at Aeskulap-Asia (Malaysia), BHD. SDN.; Director of Research and Development at Aeskulap-International AG, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Professional Life from 2015 to present
Director of Research and Development at Aeskulap-International AG, Lucerne, Switzerland; Director for Research and Development at ZOMOROD IDEH Middle East, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates; Director for Research and Development at Aeskulap-Asia, BHD. SDN., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Research Advisor at La Jung Clinic, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Scientific Activities
76 publications in peer reviewed medical journals
1 book (first text book on “Integrative Oncology”); several book chapters in other medical textbooks
56 presented papers at national and international medical conferences
Invited lecturer at the Academy of Sciences in Germany, Russia, USA and Poland
Honours
Humboldt-Prize
Immunological Research Prize