Treatment and therapy of chronic heart failure. Rhythm surgery (cardiac arrhythmia). Coronary bypass surgery. Circulatory support system. Heart transplant. Aortic surgery. Heart valve surgery. Children’s cardiac surgery.
Biography
1988-1990 Preclinical Semmelweis University in Budapest/Hungary and Saarland University in Homburg/Saarland
1990–1995 University of Mannheim and Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg
1995-1996 Internship, Cardiovascular Surgery, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
1996-1997 Assistant physician, Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Department of Oststadt Hospital
1997 Promotion to doctor. Medical in Experimental Surgery, Heidelberg Ruprecht-Karls University
1997 Bundeswehr Medical Officer, Air Transport Wing 62, Wunstorf
1999-2001 Research Fellowship, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York University, USA
2001-2004 Assistant Physician, Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School
2004 Cardiac surgery specialist and rescue medicine doctor
2005 Habilitation, Hannover Medical School
2004-2008 Senior physician, Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School
2007-2009 Member of the Board, Center for Surgery, Hannover Medical School
2009-2011 Senior Consultant, Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School
2009-2011 Lecturer in the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery at Hannover Medical School
2010 Professor APL, Hannover Medical School
2011 Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Admission to advanced training (within the clinic) in basic surgery, cardiac surgery, surgical intensive care
2011 to present Director, Cardiac Surgery Clinic and Outpatient Clinic, LMU Klinikum Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Member of the Board of the German Society of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG),
European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), Professional Association of German Surgeons (BDC), German Society of Cardiology – Cardiovascular Research (DGK), International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), German Society of Transplantology (DTG), German Heart Foundation.
