Wolfram Goessling

Wolfram Goessling is a physician-scientist who specializes in oncology and gastroenterology.^[2][3] He is the Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Goessling is also involved in the Harvard–MIT Program of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), where he is serves as co-director alongside Emery N. Brown.^[4]

Wolfram Goessling
Born	19 October 1967
Alma mater	Witten/Herdecke University (MD, PhD)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Oncology, gastroenterology
Institutions	Brigham and Women's Hospital Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School
Website	www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/Goessling.php www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/wolfram-goessling-md-phd/ www.fishing4stemcells.org www.fishing4stemcells.org/wolfram

Career and personal life

Goessling is a member of the Cancer Genetics Program and the Gastrointestinal Malignancies Program, both at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.^[5] He is also Advisory Dean of the Irving M. London Society for HST students.^[6] He has been hailed for his accessibility, compassion, and knowledge, even while fighting his own aggressive malignancy.^[7][8]

In 2013 Goessling was awarded the Irving M. London Teaching Award, together with Daniel Soloman.^[9]

He holds the Jules L. Dienstag, M.D. and Betty and Newell Hale Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology^[10] at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Goessling has been a longtime trumpeter for the Longwood Symphony Orchestra.^[11]

Selected publications

• Goessling, Wolfram (2023). Am Leben bleiben. Ein Onkologe bekämpft seinen Krebs [Staying alive. An oncologist fights his cancer] (in German). Hamburg: Rowohlt. ISBN 978-3-499-00605-0.