Ali Canbay received his license as a doctor in 1997 at the Ruhr-University Bochum. From 2001 to 2003 he was a DAAD fellowship in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota, USA) and was selected as the best young scientist of the Mayo Clinic in 2004 and was awarded the Edward Kendall Award. In 2007, he studied for the subject “internal medicine” at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Since 2007, he has been a senior physician in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University Hospital in Essen, where he received the additional title of “Internistische Intensivmedizin” (2008) and the focus on "Gastroenterology" (2010). He was Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke University from January 2017 to September 2019. He has been Director of Medical University Hospital, Department of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum since October 2019.