German Heart Center Berlin
Berlin, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Burkert Pieske
Department of Cardiology
Department of Cardiology at German Heart Center Berlin offers care for patients with congenital, acquired, acute and chronic diseases of the cardiovascular system. FOCUS Magazine considers the department as one of the best facility in Germany that is specialized in the treatment of heart diseases. The department offers its inpatient and outpatient service for the full spectrum of diseases of the heart, circulatory system, and blood vessels. The department is known for its high-level medical care as it is up-to-date with the latest research findings and advances. The main focuses of the department are the catheter treatment of coronary heart diseases, peripheral vascular diseases, heart arrhythmias, and heart failure. The department is supplied with the cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutics for all diseases, even those requiring complex interventions.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Burkert Pieske, the department treats over 2,700 inpatients and over 12,000 outpatients every year. The department also treats patients with concomitant diseases such as hypertension, lipid metabolism disorders, kidney failure and diabetes mellitus as it also affects the heart and blood vessels. The department has a specialized Chest Pain Unit for the early detection and treatment of angina patients.
The Department of Cardiology at German Heart Center Berlin is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Angina pectoris
• Hypertension
• Valve stenosis
• Valve failure
• Heart failure
• Hypertension
• Dyslipidemia
• Diabetes mellitus
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Arrhythmias
Education and Professional Experience
- 1987 - 1989 Research Fellow, University of Munich, Germany.
- 1989 - 1990 Visiting Research Fellow, Tokyo, Japan.
- 1991 Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
- 1995, 1996 Visiting Research Fellow, Loyola University, Chicago, USA.
- 1990 - 1997 Clinical Training, Department of Internal Medicine / Cardiology and Angiology, University of Freiburg, Germany.
- 1997 Specialization in Internal Medicine.
- 1998 Specialization in Cardiology.
- 1998 Habilitation, University of Freiburg, Germany.
- 1998 - 2007 Associate Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology and Pulmonology, University of Göttingen, Germany.
- 2007 - 2014 Head, Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz; Visiting Professor and Head of the Clinical Research Program, Department of Cardiology, University of Göttingen, Germany.
- 2010 - 2014 Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Translational Heart Failure Research.
- Since 2014 Director of the Department of Cardiology at the German Heart Centre Berlin; Director of the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charité, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany
Department of Cardiology
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