Professor Dr Christoph Röcken is director of the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) and was elected vice dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 2012. He was a consultant in the Department for Pathology for the Faculty of Medicine at the Otto-von-Guericke University after completing his PhD and rose to become associate professor in the specialist field of pathology at the Faculty of Medicine in 2005. From 2006 to 2009 he was university professor and vice director of the Institute of Pathology, Charité University-Hospital Berlin, and since 2009 he has been university professor and director of the Institute of Pathology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Professor Röcken is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the European Society of Pathology. He is also chairman of the Working Group of Pathology, German Cancer Society as well as board member of the German Society of Pathology and the German Society for Amyloid Diseases. He has published 426 articles in hepato-gastrointestinal pathology and diagnostics in several peer-reviewed journals.