Vita

Career

Since 06.2021

Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn (Germany)

06.2021

W3 professorship and chair at the University Hospital Bonn (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. habil.)

2018 - 05.2021

Chair of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Witten-Herdecke, NRW

10.2018 - 05.2021

Director of the Clinics for Cardiac Surgery, Helios Heart Center NRW, Siegburg-Wuppertal

03.2017

Head Physician of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the Helios Heart Center, Siegburg, NRW

2013 - 2017

Senior Consultant and Deputy Director of the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery Leipzig

2014

Professor at the Leipzig Medical Faculty (Prof. Dr. med. habil.)

2011 - 2017

Deputy Head of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Heart Center Leipzig

03.2010

Postdoctoral re-qualification in cardiac surgery. Awarded the title of university lecturer

2009 - 2011

Scientific assistant and senior physician in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Herzzentrum Leipzig, specializing in congenital cardiac surgery and adult cardiac surgery

01.2009

Habilitation in thoracic, cardiac and vascular surgery at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Award the title of university lecturer (Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. habil.).

02.2007

Consultant for cardiac surgery

2001 - 2007

Scientific assistant in the Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

02.2002

Promotion in cardiac surgery (Dr. med.)

11.2001

License to practice medicine in Germany

1995 - 2001

Medicine study at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Awards

2018

Certificate Total artificial Heart Syncardia

02.2017

Re-certification Surgery of Congenital Heart Defects of the German Society for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

02.2017

Qualification in Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Medicine

02.2012

Certificate Surgery of Congenital Heart Defects of the German Society for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

2016

Leadership Coaching

2013

Certificate DGTHG Leadership Management

2012

Certificate in Surgery of Congenital Heart Defects of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery

2012

Certificate POL course “University Teaching Training” at the Leipzig Faculty of Medicine

2011

Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)

2009

Certificate in Beating Heart Coronary Surgery (OPCAB) Advanced Training, KUL Belgium

2008

Certificate Pacemaker and Defibrillator Implantation (CRT+D), Tolochenaz Switzerland; Medtronic

2008

Certificate in University Didactics at the Medical Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

2007

Certificate in Aortic Valve Reconstruction, Homburg-Saar

2006

Certificate in Mitral Valve Surgery (Club le Mitrale), Paris France

2006

Certificate in Echocardiography (Basic, Advanced, and Final Course) from the German Society of Cardiology

2004

Certificate “Advanced Course” Cardiac Surgery

2003

Certificate Investigator According to AMG, LAK Hessen

Memberships

  • German Society for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery (DGTHG)
  • European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
  • Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
  • German Society for Cardiology (DOK)
  • European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
  • American College of Cardiology (ACC)