Specialist fields (in extracts)
- Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: Total endoscopic 3D MKR, reconstruction for Mb Barlow
- Minimally invasive aortic valve surgery: Reconstruction of bicuspid valves, RAT approach, sutureless AKE, Ross OP
- Catheter-based valve replacement: TAVI, Tendyne, TAMVI
- Surgery of the aortic root, ascending aorta and arch: David reconstruction, dissections, frozen elephant hybrid procedure, clamshell approach
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
Studies
1987-1993 | Human Medicine, EMAU and Free University of Berlin
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01/1993-05/1993 | Practical Year: Cardiac Surgery, German Heart Institute Berlin (Prof. R. Hetzer)
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06/1993-10/1993 |
Clerkship: California Pacific Medical Centre, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive care, San Francisco, California, USA |
Residency / Specialist Training
1995 | Full license to practice medicine
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1995-1996 |
Resident at Guys and St Thomas Hospital, London, England Cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, pediatric cardiac surgery |
1996-1998 | Research Associate, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ulm University Hospital
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1999-2014 |
Research Associate / Senior Physician, Clinic for Thoracic, Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Hospital of the J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main |
2003 | Area recognition "Specialist in cardiac surgery", State Medical Association of Hesse
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2003 | Appointment as senior physician (clinical center of the J.W.Goethe University)
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Professional Practice
2005-2013 |
Program Senior Physician, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Goethe University Frankfurt Head of aortic and endovascular surgery Head of catheter-based valve replacement Head of BQS, budget and DRG |
2014-2017 |
Senior physician, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Kerckhoff Klinik Bad Nauheim Head of the minimally invasive valve surgery program Head of the catheter-based valve replacement program Head of quality management Head of clinical research Head of OR management |
2017-2020 |
Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Kerckhoff Klinik Bad Nauheim Head of the Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Program Head of the Catheter Based Valve Replacement Program Head of Quality Management Head of Clinical Research |
2020-2021 |
Senior physician, Kerckhoff Klinik Bad Nauheim Head of the minimally invasive mitral valve surgery program Head of the catheter-based valve replacement program Head of quality management |
since 06/2021 | Chief Physician at the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Helios Hospital Siegburg
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Doctorate / Habilitation / Professorship
2000 |
Doctorate cum laude "Application of aortic endoluminal stent prostheses in emergency cases." Department of Radiology, University of Ulm |
2008 |
Habilitation and granting of the venia legendi for the subject cardiac surgery. "Therapy of acute lesions of the descending thoracic aorta: comparison between the open surgical approach and endovascular interventions." J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
2013 | APL Professorship of the Department of Medicine of the J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
Extra information
Over 4,000 independently performed heart, thoracic and thoracic vascular surgeries with emphasis on minimally invasive and interventional valve surgery, encompassing the entire spectrum of thoracic and cardiac surgery, including HTX and LVAD implantations.
Memberships
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie DGTHG
- European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery EACTS
- Heart Valve Society HVS
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