Charite University Hospital
Berlin, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Ulf Landmesser
Department of Cardiology (CBF)
The Department of Cardiology at Charite university hospital headed by Univ. Dr. Ulf Landmesser is located at Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin Steglitz. There it works closely with the Department of Cardiac Surgery (Director: Prof. Volkmar Falk). The department is also a part of the German Heart Center Berlin. The team of the clinic offers the best individual therapy concept for cardiovascular diseases.
At the Cardiology Clinic, patients receive comprehensive cardiology care of the highest medical standard. The clinic with its high tech equipment serves as the most advanced cardiological center in the diagnostic treatment of all kinds of acquired and congenital cardiological diseases.
The Department of Cardiology at Charite university hospital focuses on the treatment of following medical conditions:
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Heart failure
- Angina pectoris
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Valvular diseases
- Complications from implanted extraneous parts such as heart valves or pacemakers or transplantation of tissue in the heart or blood vessels.
- cardiomyopathy
- arteriosclerosis
- Hypertension
- Complications of heart disease
Being the part of Charite university hospital the clinic also involves itself in research and experimenting with new drugs in the field of cardiology.
- 2000-2001 Fellowship, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
- 2006/7 Specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, Hannover Medical School
- 2006-2007 Senior physician specializing in interventional cardiology at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School
- 2007-2009 Senior Physician with a focus on Interventional and Acute Cardiology, Head of Translational Research, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
- 2010 -2014 Chief Physician, Interventional and Acute Cardiology at the Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
- 2013-2014 Deputy Hospital Director, Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
- Since 2008 Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal (Impact Factor 15,1)
- 2012 laureate of the Georg Friedrich Götz Prize of the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich
- 2012 Sabbatical and continuing education in heart valve interventions at the Heart Hospital, University College of London
- 2012-2014 Honorary Professor, Cardiovascular Science Institute, University College London
- February 2013 - Appointment to W3 professorship for internal medicine / cardiology at the Medical Clinic II of the University of Lübeck (not started)
- November 2013 Appointment to W3 professorship for internal medicine / cardiology at the Charite
- Since October 2014 Director of the Department of Cardiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin (Campus Benjamin Franklin ) and BIH Professor of Cardiology
- Since October 2016 medical director of the Charite Center for Cardiovascular and Vascular Medicine
Department of Cardiology (CBF)
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