Specialist fields (in extracts)
- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation, TAVI ( > 160 cases per year)
- Recanalisation of chronic total coronary occlusions (CTO) (> 150 cases per year)
- Transcatheter mitral valve clipping (MitraClip)
- Complex coronary interventions (left main PCI)
- High-risk interventions with assist devices (Impella, ECMO)
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
| 1985 – 1991
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Study of Human Medicine, University of Düsseldorf
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| 1993
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Promotion
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| 1992 – 1996
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Resident Physician, Department of Medicine B – Cardiology, Wuppertal Hospital
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| 1996 – 1998
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Resident Physician, Department of Medicine A – Gastroenterology, Wuppertal Hospital
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| 1998 – 1999
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Resident Physician, Department of Medicine, EVK Mettmann
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| 1999 – 2000
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Resident Physician, Department of Medicine III – Cardiology, Wuppertal Heart Center, Hospital of Witten/Herdecke University
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| 2001 – 2005
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Senior Physician and Senior Staff Physician, Department of Medicine III – Cardiology, Wuppertal Heart Center, Hospital of Witten/Herdecke University
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| 2005 – 2013
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Deputy Director and Lead Senior Physician, Department of Medicine III – Cardiology, Helios Heart Center Wuppertal, Hospital of Witten/Herdecke University
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| 2007
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Research Fellowship, Toyohashi Heart Center, Japan
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| Since 2007
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Course Director of international courses on interventional treatment of chronic total occlusions (CTO)
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| Since 2011
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Quality Management Reviewer, Helios
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| Since 2011
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Reviewer, Initiative for Quality Medicine (IQM)
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| 2012
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Habilitation
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| Since 2014
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Chief Physician, Department of Medicine I – Cardiology and Conservative Intensive Care Medicine, Helios Heart Center Niederrhein, Helios Hospital Krefeld
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| Since 2016
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Training Director at the Niederrhein Heart Center for the subspecialty qualification in Interventional Cardiology
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Certification
Qualifications
- 1998
Rescue service expertise
- 1999
Specialist in internal medicine
- 2000
Additional qualification in cardiology
- 2006
Internal intensive care medicine
- since 2007
Instructor of international courses on interventional treatment of chronic coronary occlusions (CTO)
- 2011
Europe-wide trainer/proctor for catheter-based heart valve treatment (TAVI)
- since 2011
Reviewer Initiative Quality Medicine (IQM)
- since 2011
Reviewer Helios Quality Management
- since 2016
Head of training at the Heart Center Lower Rhine for the additional qualification Interventional Cardiology
Memberships
- German Society for Cardiology - Cardiovascular Research
- German Society for Internal Medicine
- European Society of Cardiology
- EuroCTO Club of the European Society of Cardiology
- Scientific Advisory Board of the German Heart Foundation
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