User talk:Dr Robert Gorter,MD,PhD.

Dr. Robert W. D. Gorter'' (Life and Experience) Dr. Gorter was born and grew up in the Netherlands and graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Amsterdam in 1971. In 1973, he finished his specialty trainings in: 1)	Family and Community Medicine (including Public Health); 2)	Oncology; 3)	Tropical Medicine (including emergency surgeries like Cesarean Section); 4)	Anthroposophic Medicine; 5)	Homeopathy; 6)	Natural Therapies; 7)	Translational Medicine; 8)	School doctor (child development between up to 18 years) 9)	Traditional Chinese Medicine (licensed acupuncturist in EU and California). Also, Dr. Gorter holds a degree in philosophy, with emphasis on the development of thinking over the previous 2.500 years and how German Idealism shaped European culture, from the same University of Amsterdam. In 1971, with the full support of the City of Amsterdam, Dr. Gorter opened the very first methadone detox and maintenance program in Amsterdam. Dr. Gorter opened his own day-care hospital, including a chain of bio-dynamic (organic), vegetarian, health food restaurants with cooking classes for patients and their families and for school classes; worked for Amnesty International as a specialist for victims of torture. Since 1975, with a few others, throughout Europe, he founded clinics for rehabilitation of victims of torture and suffering from “Concentration Camp / Post Stress Syndrome.” Dr. Gorter went on several missions for Amnesty International to evaluate crimes against humanity. In 1982, Dr. Gorter immigrated to the USA and did two more specialty trainings at the University of California San Francisco Medical School (UCSF). From 1986 to 2014, Dr. Gorter held the position of Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF and simultaneously, similar faculty positions at 5 other large universities in three continents.

In addition, he obtained the position of the Medical Director of the Department of AIDS Epidemiology and Biostatistics and lectured Biostatistics and Public Health at the University of California Berkeley (UCBerkeley). Dr. Gorter was instrumental and one of the very first medical doctors to treat HIV/AIDS patients in California and co-established Ward 86 at San Francisco General Hospital; the world-famous clinic for HIV/AIDS care and research. For all his research and clinical expertise, he did many projects in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua; and later in Africa, in The Gambia, Senegal, Nigeria and in South-Africa. In 1993, Dr. Gorter became the Dean of a major medical school in Germany where he assisted in introducing “Problem Oriented Learning (POL). Then, he took a faculty position at the “Freie Universität” in Berlin and started his own European Institute for Oncological and Immunological Research in Berlin. He started with three co-workers and after 6 years, it was a leading international research institute with over 200 co-workers and affiliated academic institutions From 2000 on, Dr. Gorter founded and headed his own clinics with an emphasis on non-toxic cancer therapies in the Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Egypt and Turkey. Over the previous 47+ years, Dr. Gorter was invited as a visiting professor or as a “Key-Note Speaker” at international congresses for over 400 times. Dr. Gorter has published numerous articles, reviews, and books. Copies of some translated books were sold over 2.500.000 times. Since 1999, Dr. Gorter and his team have gathered extensive experience with the clinical application of both monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells (DC) as well as with adult, autologous, mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) for tissue repair. For watching numerous video documentaries of patients being treated by Dr. Gorter and his team visit: https://vimeo.com/channels/mcctestimonials www.gorter-model.org