Chief of Division of Advanced Interventional Gastroenterology and Director of  Interventional Endoscopy Services (IES) at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.    Dr Binmoeller’s   practice of advanced interventional endoscopy has inspired Innovation to improve outcomes and enable new devices and procedures.  He is the inventor of the AXIOS lumen-apposing stent and holds over 50 patents for innovative endoscopic technologies.  He has authored more than 200 publications and  several books.      He has trained and mentored endoscopists from all corners of the globe.    Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) ,  American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), and Japananese Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Society (JGES).    In 2013 the ASGE honored Dr Binmoeller with the  Master Endoscopist of the Year Award.

Dr Binmoeller’s training and professional positions have been split between the United States and Europe.  He attended medical school at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland, followed by internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and gastroenterology fellowship training at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.   Prior University faculty appointments:   Nice, France (CHR Cimiez, 1990-1991) ,   Hamburg, Germany (UKE, 1991-1998),    San Diego USA  (UCSD, 1998-2001).