Our team in the fertility centre

Dr. Bartlomiej Berger
Specialist in gynaecology, gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine

Dr. Berger, MD, who has been a senior doctor at the MVZ PAN Institute since January 2020, studied human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and passed his second state examination in 2009. He then worked as an assistant doctor in the gynaecological clinic of the Cuxhaven Hospital and in the Clinic for Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine of the RWTH Aachen University Hospital. In Aachen he also completed his training as a specialist in gynaecology with a focus on gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine. 

Dr. Berger is married and the father of one child.

Prof. Dr. Martina Breidenbach
Specialist in gynaecology, senology and breast surgery

Prof. Dr. Martina Breidenbach, employed as chief doctor at the MVZ PAN Institute, studied human medicine in Cologne. She completed her residency at the University Women's Hospital in Cologne and at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA.

Dr. Mirko Dannhof
Specialist in gynaecology, gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine

Dr. Dannhof, who has been working as head doctor at the MVZ PAN Institute since 2003, studied human medicine in Frankfurt am Main, where he received his doctorate in 1992 at the University Women's Hospital. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynaecology at the local Northwest Hospital from 1993 to 1999. After moving to the Klinikum Schwäbisch-Gmünd, where he worked as a senior doctor, he qualified further with a focus on gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine.

In 2003 Dr. Dannhof moved to Cologne, joined the group practice Dres. Palm, Sasse and Pütz and took over his position in the PAN clinic. In 2006, he received the authorisation for further training in the field of gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine. In 2012, Dr. Dannhof was appointed by the German Accreditation Body as an expert in the field of reproductive medicine and has also been a member of the Sector Committee Medical Laboratories of Division 3 of the German Accreditation Body since 2013.

Dr. Dannhof is married and has three children.

Johan Denil, MD
Specialist in Urology and andrology 

Dr. Dr. Denil, a specialist in andrology and urology with a focus on andrology, fertility and microsurgical techniques, has been a member of the medical team of the urology department of the PAN Clinic since 1999. Together with our fertility centre he looks after patients and their partners. Mr. Denil, MD, studied biomedicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, before moving to the University of Michigan, USA, to work scientifically and clinically in the field of andrology. 

Priv. Doz. Dr. Dolores Foth
Specialist in gynaecology, gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine

Dr. Dolores Foth, chief doctor at the MVZ PAN Institute since 2010 and head of our Clinical Endometriosis Centre since 2013, studied human medicine at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, where she received her doctorate in 1993. She completed her training as a specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics at the clinic and polyclinic there. After a research stay in North Carolina, USA, she qualified further in the field of gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine. From 1999 to 2010, she worked first as a specialist, then as a senior doctor for gynaecology and obstetrics in the Department of Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology in the Clinic and Polyclinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the University of Cologne, where she also became head of the functional area for gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine in 2004. In 2003, she received the authorisation to teach gynaecology and obstetrics, in 2004 the authorisation for optional further training in gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine and in 2008 the authorisation for further training in gynaecological endocrinology. Since 2010 she has been working in the group practice Drs. Palm and Partner.

Dr. Julia Holtschmidt
Specialist in gynaecology, gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine

Dr. Julia Holtschmidt, chief doctor at the MVZ PAN Institute, studied human medicine at the Technical University of Dresden, the Justus Liebig University of Gießen and the Albertus Magnus University of Cologne. After completing her studies in 2006, she worked as an assistant doctor in the department of gynaecology and obstetrics at the Maltester Hospital Bonn/Rhein-Sieg and the St. Elisabeth Hospital Cologne-Hohenlind before moving to the PAN Clinic in 2012 and qualifying as a specialist in gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine.  

Dr. Julia Holtschmidt is married and mother of two children.

Dipl. Biol.Manuel Kernbach
Dipl. Biologist, Laboratory for Andrology and Reproductive Medicine

Mr. Manuel Kernbach, graduate biologist at the andrology and reproductive medicine laboratory of the MVZ PAN Institute at the PAN Klinik am Neumarkt, studied biology at the University of Cologne. After completing his studies, he worked in the research and development department of a well-known biotechnology and biomedicine company. He has been working in the andrology and reproductive medicine laboratory at the MVZ PAN Institute since 2017. Mr Kernbach became deputy laboratory manager in 2018 and took over as laboratory manager in 2021.

In 2020, he completed the specialist qualification in "Human Reproductive Biology" (AGRBM). He has been a "Clinical Embryologist" since 2021 and a "Senior Clinical Embryologist" (ESHRE) since 2024.

Dr. Aysegül KLAPPERICH
Specialist in Human genetics

Dipl. Psych. Andrea Langness
Psychological Psychotherapist

Mrs. Andrea Langness, psychological psychotherapist at the MVZ PAN Institute, studied psychology at the RWTH Aachen and completed further training at the Cologne Teaching Institute for Behaviour Treatment. After her licensing as a psychological psychotherapist (behavioural treatment), she completed further training in the field of trauma treatment. After therapeutic work in the LVR Clinic Langenfeld and in the outpatient clinic of the KLVT, she has been working as a psychological psychotherapist in her own practice since 2018.

Dr. Georg Mansmann
Specialist for Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetology

Dr. Georg Mansmann studied human medicine in Cologne and Montpellier, France. He spent his time as an assistant doctor at the Department of Hematology and Oncology at the University Hospital of Cologne, where he was the scientific coordinator of the Malignant Lymphoma Competence Network. In 2001, he moved to the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Rheumatology at the University Hospital Düsseldorf as an assistant doctor. He is a specialist in internal medicine with a focus on endocrinology and diabetology and has numerous special qualifications.  

Prof Dr. med. Dirk Müller-Wieland
Facharzt für Innere Medizin, Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel

Herr Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Müller-Wieland, studierte Humanmedizin in Hamburg. Seine Zeit als Arzt in der Facharztausbildung zum Internisten mit den Schwerpunkten Endokrinologie, Diabetologie und Stoffwechsel absolvierte an der Medizinischen Kernklinik und Poliklinik (Direktor: Prof. Dr. H. Greten) des UKE in Hamburg und in der Klinik II und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin (Direktor: Prof. Dr. W. Krone) der Universität zu Köln. 2006 wechselte er als Chefarzt in die I. Medizinische Klinik an der Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg. Von 2017 bis 2019 war er der Präsident der Deutschen Diabetes Gesellschaft (DDG). 

Dr. Sassan Nazari
Specialist in urology and andrology

Sassan Nazari, MD, specialist in urology and andrology at the PAN Clinic and Fellow of European Board of Urology, studied human medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. From 1999 he worked at the University of Cologne as a research assistant in the Department of Urology, where he also received his doctorate in 2003.  He has been a member of the medical team of our urology department since 2004.

Dr. Stefan Palm
Specialist in gynaecology, gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine

Dr. Palm, medical director of the MVZ PAN Institute and the PAN Clinic, studied human medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1972.
After his licence to practice medicine in 1973, he worked as a research assistant at the Surgical Clinic of the University of Munich. In 1976/77 he was a fellow at the C. S. Mott centre for Human Growth and Development at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. Back in Germany, he worked as a research assistant at the University Women's Hospital in Munich, where he qualified as a specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics in 1984. Since 1981 he has been a member of the working group for extracorporeal fertilisation there: Follicular micromilieu and in-vitro fertilisation (DFG funding). 

In 1988, Dr. Palm settled in Cologne, where he established the Centre for Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine in the joint practice in the Haubrichforum. In 1989, he acquired the authorisation for further training in gynaecology and obstetrics. In 1997, she completed further training in the areas of specialist knowledge for laboratory examinations in gynaecology and obstetrics as well as in gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine. In 1999 he founded the PAN Klinik am Neumarkt with an interdisciplinary centre for gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine (gynaecology, urology/andrology, human genetics and psychosomatics). In 2002, he laid the foundation stone for the PAN Institute for Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine and thereby for today's MVZ PAN Institute, which is recognised as a clinical training centre.   

Mr. Palm, MD, is married and the father of four children.

Priv. Doz. Dr. Torsten Schmidt
Specialist in gynaecology, fertility surgery (MIS III)

Dr. Torsten Schmidt, Deputy Medical Director of the PAN Clinic since 2011, studied human medicine in Greifswald and completed his training as a specialist in pathology and gynaecology and obstetrics in Greifswald and Cologne. From 1997 to 2003 he worked as a senior doctor in the field of endoscopic surgery and endometriosis treatment and as a personnel doctor at the University Women's Hospital in Cologne. At the same time, he established himself as a gynaecologist in the Centre for Operative Gynaecological Endoscopy at the PAN Clinic in 2002. He received his teaching licence in 2011.    

Dr. Torsten Schmidt is married and father of three children.

dr. rer. nat. carlo schmitz
M.Sc. Biotechnologe, Laboratory for Andrology and Reproductive Medicine