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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Complex cardiac surgery
  • Ventricular assist devices (artificial hearts); including minimal-invasive LVAD
  • Minimal-invasive coronary artery and valve surgery
  • Total arterial revascularisation
  • Aortic surgery (hybrid approach with endovascular surgery)
  • Critical care
  • Extra corporeal life support

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

since 08/2021 Section Head Heart Failure, Helios Hospital Siegburg GmbH
05/2020-06/2021 Section Head, Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
05/2018-07/2021 Senior Physician, Cardiac Surgery and Head of Surgical Heart Failure Therapy, University Hospital of Tübingen, Eberhard Karls University
10/2016-04/2018 Managing Consultant with leadership of the Heart Failure Program, Frankfurt University Hospital, Goethe University
02/2014-10/2016 Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplant Surgeon, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
12/2011-02/2014 Senior Fellow, Department of Cardiothoracic Transplantation & Mechanical Circulatory Support, University Hospital Göttingen, Germany, Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
09/2010-10/2011 Senior Transplant Fellow, Department of Cardiothoracic Transplantation & Mechanical Circulatory Support, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK
since 12/2009 Medical Assistant Thoracic Retrieval Service, DSO (German Organ Transplantation Foundation)
01/2004-08/2010 Specialist in cardiac surgery, University Hospital Göttingen, Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery
02/2006-08/2006 Resident (rotation), University Hospital Göttingen, Department of Trauma Surgery & Plastic Surgery
01/2005-02/2006 Resident (rotation), University Hospital of Göttingen, Department of Anaesthesiology II, Intensive Care Medicine

Studies of human medicine, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Academic activities

His particular academic interest comprises the development and clinical introduction of medical devices and minimally-invasive surgical techniques to treat heart valve diseases, thoracic aortic and heart and lung failure.

Contributions

  • Prof. Popov has written over 200 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and editorials, in the field of Cardiothoracic Medicine, Transplantation, Basic Science, Cardiology, and Intensive Care Medicine as well as contributed to many book chapters
  • He is a reviewer for more than 15 national and international journals
  • He has spoken in more than 20 countries with over 150 presentations as an international lecturer
  • He serves as Section Editor-in-Chief for an international journal

Extra information

Based on his experience, he is proctoring worldwide for heart failure surgery including minimal-invasive LVAD

Memberships

  • European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • German Society of Transplant Surgery
  • German Society of Cardiology

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