Robert Gorter

Robert Gorter, MD, PhD, earned his medical degree at the University of Amsterdam Medical School in the Netherlands in 1973. The same year he completed specialty training in anthroposophical medicine, with an emphasis on oncology, in Switzerland. From 1974 through 1982, he was in private practice in Amsterdam. From 1983-1986 he received a second post-doctoral training at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School. Dr. Gorter was full UCSF faculty member from 1986 to 2008. He earned a PhD from the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany, where he continues to serve as a faculty member ("Privatdozent"). Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he was an attending physician and researcher in HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital in the world-renowned Ward 86. Subsequently, for four years, Dr. Gorter was medical director of the Department of AIDS Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. From 1992 to 1993, he was the Vice Dean of the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. In 1993, he founded the European Institute for Oncological and Immunological Research in Berlin which he headed till 2000. In 2000 he founded the Medical Center Cologne, dedicated to the treatment of cancer using dendritic cell vaccinations and adult mesenchymal stem cells in combination with immune supportive therapies and hyperthermia, and has been its director since then. Dr. Gorter has written numerous articles and abstracts, contributed to many books, and been featured on ABC and CNN, and numerous television programs in the EU, Turkey, and in the Middle East.