University Hospital Rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich

Capacity — 1,161 beds.

The University Clinic of the Technical University, located on the right bank of the Isar River in Munich, provides a full range of medical services.


Specialisations: oncology, radiotherapy, anesthesiology, cardiology, gastroenterology, visceral surgery, gynecology, neurology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, palliative therapy, pediatrics, plastic surgery, psychology, pulmonology, rheumatology, traumatology, urology, dermatology, diabetology.

It employs a highly qualified team of experienced professors, doctors, nurses, medical scientists and technical assistants, many of whom are included in the Top Top German Doctors for 2011 (according to the German analytical magazine FСUS).

About 4,500 employees serve patients at the University Clinic, conduct scientific medical research and teach medical students. The hospital gained worldwide recognition, and now annually more than 58,000 inpatients and about 220,000 outpatients undergo treatment at Rechts der Isar.

The University Clinic TUM is a large scientific and medical complex that unites more than 30 clinics and departments and comprises over 1,100 beds. The clinic covers almost the entire spectrum of modern medicine. Due to the tight cooperation between medical and research work, the latest methods and research results are used in the treatment process.

For the individual treatment of each patient, in addition to specialised medical departments, 6 interdisciplinary centres were established:

• Therapy Centre of Malignant Tumours

• Centre of Vascular Disease

• Centre of Mother and Child

• Center of Endocrinology

• Breast Center

• Pain Therapy Center

In these centres, specialists from different medical fields jointly develop an individual and effective treatment plan for the hospital's patients.

Rechts der Isar gave the world many departments, recognised and well-known in the European medical community. The most famous of them are:

• Department of Neurosurgery headed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer

• Department of Vascular Surgery headed by Prof. Dr. med. Eckstein.

• Department of Neurology headed by Prof. Dr. med. B. Hemmer.

The clinic's surgeons perform unique operations on neck and head vessels, spinal cord and brain tumours — the departments in considered to be one of the best in the world. Post-stroke, post-tumour and atherosclerosis reconstructive operations are performed here as well.

The ENT Department performs minimally invasive operations on the vocal cords and auditory nerves, oncological cases, aesthetic plastic surgery, etc.