Maximilian Burger

Prof. Dr. med. Maximilian Burger, F.E.B.U.,MD, is Professor of Urology and Chairman of the Department of Urology, Caritas-St. Josef Medical Center, University of Regensburg, Germany. He was born in Munich, Germany in 1974 and attended the Medical Schools of the Universities of Ulm and Regensburg and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA graduating in 2000. He underwent urology training at the departments of the Universities of Mainz and Regensburg and was board certified in 2005. In 2007 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Urology by the University of Regensburg. From 2011 to 2013 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Urology by the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg (Chairman Prof. Dr. Riedmiller) serving as Deputy Chairman (Leitender Oberarzt). He was appointed Professor of Urology and Chairman of the department in Regensburg in 2013. His main clinical and academical focus is surgical and medical uro-oncology. He has authored and coauthored numerous papers mainly on bladder and prostate cancer. He is a member of the national German bladder cancer guideline panel (S3) since 2012 and a member of the non-muscle invasive bladder cancer guideline panel of the European Association of Urology (EAU) since 2012 serving as its Vice-Chairman. In 2014, he was elected to the board of the the German Association of Urology (DGU).