Volker RUDAT (External Specialist), MD,PhD
- Department:
- Jiahui International Cancer Center
- Radiation Oncology
- International Cancer Consultant
- Hepatobiliary Tumor MDT Clinic
- Location:
- Jiahui International Hospital (Shanghai)
- Languages:English, Deutsch
Dr. Volker RUDAT is the Consultant of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Jiahui International Cancer Center, and Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University Hospital Hamburg (UKE), Germany.
He received his scientific and clinical education at the German Cancer Research Center (dkfz) and University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 2001, he was appointed Professor and Vice Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital Hamburg (UKE) and in 2006, Director of the Department of Radiation Oncology of the St. Josef University Hospital, Bochum, Germany. Dr. Rudat followed an invitation to Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, where he and his team established a large Oncology Center.
Dr. Rudat has performed many clinical and radiobiological studies which are reflected in more than 100 international scientific publications. He contributed scientifically to the development of concomitant radiochemotherapy, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT). Dr. Rudat served as a principal investigator of a German prospective multicenter study establishing larynx function preserving therapy in Germany. Apart from the radiotherapy and radiochemotherapy of head and neck cancer, his clinical and scientific interest focuses on the radiotherapy of breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, rectal cancer, and other malignant tumors and benign conditions.