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 — Studies: University of Düsseldorf |
| 10/1993 — Doctoral thesis: University of Düsseldorf |
| 2012 — Postdoctoral qualification: University of Witten/Herdecke |
| «Recanalisation of chronic total coronary occlusions. New treatment options by the retrograde way»; Reviewer: International Journal of Cardiology / Herz / German Society of Cardiology / IQM |
| 1992 – 2005 — Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology |
| 2005 – 2012 — Assistant Medical Director and Head of Interventional Cardiology University Dept. 3 – Cardiology Heart Centre Wuppertal Director: Prof. Dr. med. H. Seyfarth |
| 2014 — Medical Director and Head of Dept. of Med. I – Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine Heart Centre Krefeld |
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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