University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Hamburg, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Hermann Reichenspurner

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf provides surgical care for patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases. This department is one of the 4 departments forming the University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg. The main area of focus of this department is minimally invasive valve surgery. Great efforts have been directed towards heart valve repair.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Hermann Reichenspurner, the department performs more than 2,000 surgeries with the help of heart-lung machine as well as nearly 400 aortic valve implantation procedures. Another area of specialty of this facility is the surgical treatment of coronary heart disease. With the cutting-edge equipment and qualified surgeons, the department’s reputation in the field of arterial bypass procedures is outstanding.

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf is specialized in:

•   Coronary artery bypass graft
•   Valve repair
•   Valve replacement
•   Catheter clipping of the mitral valve
•   Reconstruction of the aortic valve
•   Heart transplantation

1979 - 1985 School of Medicine, University of Munich.
1987 - 1989 Resident, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
1991 - 1994 Fellow, Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Grosshadern, Munich.
1994 Exam in Cardiothoracic Surgery and the United States Medical Licensure Examination.
1995 Fellow, Heart/Lung Transplant, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA, USA.
1996 - 1997 Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Co-Director, Heart and Lung Transplantation, Cardiovascular Institute, University Hospital Dresden, Germany.
1997 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Grosshadern, Munich, Germany.
Since 2001 Professor and Chief Physician of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Medical Director of the University Heart Center Hamburg.

Awards

1984 Philip Caves Award of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
1987 Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
1988 President Award of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
1999 Franz J. Köhler Prize of the German Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Memberships in Professional Societies

German Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery.
German Transplantation Society.
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (2011 - 2014 President).
European Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
European Society for Organ Transplantation.
International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (2001 - 2002 President).
European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery.