University Hospital Essen
Essen, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Tienush Rassaf
Department of Cardiology and Angiology
Department of Cardiology and Angiology at University Hospital Essen provides care for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The department is in cooperation with the department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery and is divided into different centers to ensure optimum care for each patient. The department has a Leading Medicine Guide Certificate as well as recognition from FOCUS magazine for the year of 2018 and 2019 as one of the top facilities of its kind in Germany.
The department consists of 2 stations where standard cardiological care is provided for the full spectrum of heart and vascular diseases, 1 station where highly experienced doctors and nurses take care of patients with advanced heart failure, 1 Angiological station where central and peripheral vascular diseases are being treated and lastly a Chest Pain unit for life-threatening diseases and extremely ill patients. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Tienush Rassaf, more than 3,500 inpatients and 8,000 outpatients are treated every year by the qualified medical staff which consists of 9 senior doctors, 25 assistant physicians, and 96 nurses.
Department of Cardiology and Angiology at University Hospital Essen is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Coronary heart disease
• Aortic valve disease
• Mitral valve disease
• Atrial occlusion
• Acute and chronic heart failure
• Aortic stenosis
• Cardiac arrhythmia
• Aortic dissection
• Acute myocardial infarction
• Embolism
• Tumors of the heart
• Tumors of the blood vessels
• Arteriosclerosis
• Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Research Activities
- 02.2001 Doctoral thesis defense with honors.
- 2001 - 2002 Research Scholarship of the German Research Foundation, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
- 2002 - 2003 Scholar of the German Cardiac Society (DGK), Research on Cardiovascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- 12.2008 Habilitation.
- 07.2010 - 07.2015 W2 Professor of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Internal Medicine (focus on infarction), Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Head of the Research Group on Cardiovascular Diseases.
- 10.2012 - 07.2015 Deputy Chairman of the Research Committee of the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- Since 04.2014 Chairman of the Working Group "Coronary Blood Flow and Myocardial Perfusion", German Research Foundation.
Clinical Training
- 1994 - 2000 Study of Human Medicine at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and the Texas Institute of Cardiology, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA.
- 2000 - 2001 Intern, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- 2002 Admission to medical practice.
- 2003 - 2005 Assistant Physician, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf
- 2005 - 2008 Assistant Physician, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology at the University Hospital Aachen.
- 2008 - 2009 Senior Physician, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology at the University Hospital Aachen and Managing Senior Physician in General Intensive Care.
- 2009 Senior Physician in the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- 2012 Personal Senior Physician of the Medical Management Team, Leading Senior Physician in the Intensive Care Unit, Leading Senior Physician in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.
- 2013 Managing Senior Physician and Deputy Head of the Department.
- Since 08.2015 Head of the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at the University Hospital Essen.
- Since 01.2016 Speaker on Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Duisburg-Essen.
Department of Cardiology and Angiology
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