Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
Education
| 1994 to 2000 | Studies of human medicine, Sulaimani University, Sulaimani (Iraq) | 
| 2002 to 2010 | 
				 Training as a specialist in cardiac surgery: Vascular and thoracic surgery, Rendsburg, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf  | 
		
| 2002 | Specialist knowledge in radiation protection | 
| 2006 | Rescue service expertise | 
| 2008 | USMLE 1, 2 and 3 (ECFMG certification) | 
| 2010 | Specialist for heart surgery | 
| 2011 | 
				 Habilitation, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf: "Development and Preclinical Testing of a Novel Non-Pulsatile Right Ventricular Assist Device"  | 
		
| 2018 | Specialist in thoracic surgery | 
| 2022 | Additional qualification in intensive care medicine | 
Career Path
| 2002 to 2003
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				 Resident, Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rendsburg District Hospital, academic teaching hospital of Kiel University  | 
		
| 2003 to 2006
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				 Research assistant, Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center Bad Oeynhausen, University Clinic of the Ruhr University Bochum  | 
		
| 2006 to 2008
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				 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA  | 
		
| 2008 to 2009
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				 Advanced Clinical Fellow, Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.  | 
		
| 2009 to 2012
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				 Research assistant, Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf  | 
		
| 2012 to 2018
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				 Senior physician, head of the artificial heart program and deputy head of the heart transplant program, Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf  | 
		
| 2018 to 2022
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				 Senior and Managing Senior Physician and Head of Division, Artificial Heart and Heart Transplantation, University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Helios Heart Center Leipzig  | 
		
| since 2022
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				 Chief Physician, Clinic for Cardiac and Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of the Helios Heart Center Lower Rhine, Helios Hospital Krefeld  | 
		
Academic activities
- 2017
 
Adjunct professorship, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Memberships
- Board member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
 - Member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
 - Member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons (AATS)
 - Member of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
 - Member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
 - Member of CTS Net
 - Member of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG)
 - Member of the General Medical Council (GMC), England
 
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