Department of Cardiology and Angiology at University Hospital Tübingen

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University Hospital Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Meinrad Paul Gawaz

Department of Cardiology and Angiology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Cardiology and Angiology at University Hospital Tübingen provides care for patients with diseases of the cardiovascular system. The department is the German Heart Center of Competence Tübingen that directs great concern towards the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease, arrhythmias, and heart failure and it is highly specialized in the treatment of aortic stenosis for which it has successfully performed 900 procedures in the past 10 years. The department is known as one of the few centers in the world to perform sparing techniques without general anesthesia for the treatment of aortic stenosis.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Med. Meinrad Paul Gawaz, the department treats about 5,000 inpatients every year. The department also has a Chest Pain Unit certified by the German Cardiac Society. This unit has a great medical team that cares for patients with critical conditions. The research unit of the department has ongoing projects in the field of interventional cardiology, and cardiac imaging.  The department also conducts massive researches on the prevention of myocardial damage.

The Department of Cardiology and Angiology at University Hospital Tübingen is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Atrial septal defects
•   Heart valve defects
•   Heart arrhythmic disorders
•   Pulmonary hypertension
•   Heart failure
•   Aortic stenosis
•   Atrial fibrillation
•   Ischemic heart diseases
•   Hypertension
•   Coronary artery stenosis
•   Blood clots and embolisms

Scientific Activities

1981 - 1987 Study of Medicine at the Universities of Bochum, Ulm, Munich, Cambridge (England) and Stanford (USA).
1988 - 1989 Research Fellow at the Institute of Physiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Prof. Dr. Martin Klingenberg).
1989 - 1991 Scholarship of the German Research Foundation at the University of Louisville (USA) and Scripps Research Institute (USA) (Dr. Mark Ginsberg).
1991 - 1993 Research Fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine I, Grosshadern Hospital at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Prof. Dr. G. Riecker).
1993 - 1997 Research Fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich (Prof. Dr. A. Schömig).
Since 1997, Senior Physician in the Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Rechts der Isar, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich.
1995 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Internal Medicine, Technical University of Munich.
1996 Specialization in Cardiology.
1999 Appointed as an Extraordinary Professor, Technical University of Munich.
2004 Alexander Schmidt Prize of the Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis.
2004 Specialization in Angiology.
Since 10.2004, Head of the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Tuebingen, as well as (C4) Full-time Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, University of Tuebingen.