Gastroenterology consultant appointed Professor of Medicine
June 23, 2008 College News - Helmut Ammon, MD, has been appointed Professor of Medicine in the division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, his clinical interests include providing gastroenterology consultations on inpatients at Froedtert Hospital and clinical instruction to students and house staff.
Dr. Ammon began his career with the Medical College in 1973, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine. He was eventually promoted to Chief of Gastroenterology at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine. He left the Medical College in 1986, when he was appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Chief of Gastroenterology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He returned in 1988 as a Clinical Professor of Medicine, in private practice serving on the volunteer Medical College faculty.
He has also been a staff member of Columbia Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital and Columbia St. Mary’s Ozaukee Campus in Mequon since 1988. In 1999, he was elected Chairman of the division of Gastroenterology at Columbia Hospital.
Dr. Ammon is an international reviewer of scientific manuscripts for the publications Gastroenterology, the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, the American Journal of Physiology, the Journal of Clinical Investigation and the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, amongst others. He has authored or co-authored 47 journal articles and 59 scientific abstracts, and his research interests include studying how poor absorption of fat causes diarrhea.
He completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. in 1973, and an internal medicine residency in 1968. He served a rotating internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Mass. from 1964 to 1965, and a medical internship at Muenchen-Schwabing Hospital in Munich, Germany in 1964. He served a surgical internship at St. Barbara Hospital in Schwandorf/Opf, Germany in 1963.
Dr. Ammon received his medical degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Munich Medical School in 1963.