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 |
Academic activities
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Fields of research: |
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- Interventional therapy of acute myocardial infarction |
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- Chronic total occlusions (CTO) |
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- Acute coronary syndrome |
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- Coronary stenting |
| - Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
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Contributions
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German Society of Cardiology |
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European Society of Cardiology |
| EuroCTO Club
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