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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
01/1993-05/1993 Practical Year: Cardiac Surgery, German Heart Institute Berlin (Prof. R. Hetzer)
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
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
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
2003 Appointment as senior physician (clinical center of the J.W.Goethe University)

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

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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