University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Hamburg, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Stefan Blankenberg

Department of Cardiology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf provides medical care for patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases. The department has earned worldwide recognition for its success in the invasive and non-invasive diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular system disorders. The department of cardiology has a special unit for cardiac arrhythmia. Pacemaker and fibrillatory implantations are a great concern of the department as well as research to help enhance their efficacy and reduce complications. Cooperation with other departments helps in providing the best treatment for each patient.
The department of cardiology is a keystone of the University's heart and vascular center where more than 6,000 inpatients are treated under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Stefan Blankenberg. The department has a special unit dedicated to emergency medical care called Chest Pain Unit.

Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Aortic stenosis
•   Aortic valve incompetence
•   Mitral valve incompetence
•   Tricuspid valve incompetence
•   Pulmonary valve incompetence
•   Atrial septal defect
•   Atrial open oval window
•   Heart failure
•   Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
•   Marfan syndrome
•   Loeys-Dietz syndrome
•   Aneurysms

1989 - 1996 Study of Medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt and Mount Sinai Medical School, New York.
1996 State Examination, Doctoral Degree.
1996 - 2002 Resident and Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2002 - 2003 INSERM Scholarship for postdoctoral training in Molecular Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology at INSERM U525, Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpétrière Paris, France.
2003 - 2005 Resident and Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2004 Habilitation at the Department of Internal Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2005 - 2011 Senior Physician at the Department of Internal Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2005 - 2011 Full Professor of Medicine and Faculty Member of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2007 - 2011 Leading Senior Physician and Deputy Head of the Department of Internal Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2008 - 2011 Speaker of the Interdisciplinary Task Force on Vascular Prevention of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Since 2011 Head of the Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf.

Awards and Scholarships

Since 1990 Member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
2001 Young Investigator Award in Thrombosis of the European Society of Cardiology.
2001 Young Research Award of the German Heart Foundation.
2001 Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis.
2002 Robert Mueller Award of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
2002 Young Investigator Award in Clinical Science of the European Society of Cardiology (2nd winner).
2002 Research Award of the German Heart Foundation.
2004 Scientific Award of the German Society of Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases.
2007 Albert Fraenkel Award of the German Cardiac Society.

Membership in Scientific Working Groups, Committees, and Societies

German Cardiac Society.
German Society for Internal Medicine.
Steering Committee Member "Functional Genomics" of the American Heart Association.
Steering Committee Member of the MORGAM (MONICA, Risk, Genetics, Archiving, and Monograph) Study.
Steering Committee Member of the "Long-Term Intervention with Pravastatin" Study.
Principal Investigator and Steering Committee Member of the Gutenberg Health Study.