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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Minimally-invasive mitral andaortic valve reconstruction and replacement
  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
  • Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
  • Trancatheter mitral and tricuspid valve reconstruction MITRA Clip and TRI Clip
  • Aortic surgery
  • Pacemaker implantation

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

1991–1997
Education at the Medical Faculty of Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, Saint Petersburg
1998–2002
Doctor at the Cardiac Surgery Centre of City Multidisciplinary Hospital No. 2, Saint Petersburg
2001
Defense of the PhD thesis, Saint Petersburg, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University
2002–2003
DAAD scholarship holder, clinical internship under the supervision of Prof. Mora, Leipzig Heart Centre, Leipzig University
2003–2010 Doctor at the Cardiology Centre, Leipzig University
2009 Certification in Cardiovascular Surgery
2009–2010
Research work at the research laboratory of the Cardiology Centre in Leipzig
2010 Clinical and research internship at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Canada)
Since 2011 Head of Cardiac Surgery, Helios Heart Centre Leipzig, Leipzig University; Head of the VIP Department at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Leipzig
2013 Defence of doctoral thesis and award of the degree of Privat-Dozent
2015 Head of the interdisciplinary VIP unit at the Leipzig Heart Surgery Clinic
2016
Receiving the title of Honorary Professor of the Kazakh-Russian University
2016–2019
Studying at the University of Nuremberg, majoring in „Master of health business Administration“
Since 2017 Director of Helios Private Clinic Leipzig
2019 Received professorship, Leipzig University

Certification

04/2016 - Resuscitation certificate

Academic activities

  • As part of the scientific and professional, a significant number of lectures were delivered on topic issues in cardiology and cardiac surgery
  • Prof.Leontyev regularly takes part in world and national scientific and practical congresses and conferences (USA, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria) as a speaker, lecturer and listener
  • He holds master classes in Russian and German universities on biological prosthetics of heart valves

Contributions

  • author and co-author of over 54 scientific papers in leading world journals (IF 216)
  • European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Extra information

  • More than 2000 open-heart surgeries and endovascular methods of various profiles have been performed, both in the Cardiac Surgery Center of Leipzig and in leading centers in Russia

Read more:

Interview with Prof. Dr. Med. Sergey Leontyev: “Second opinion” of a German heart surgeon on why patients choose Leipzig Heart Center

Memberships

  • German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG)

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