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The clinic team

The employees of our clinic introduce themselves below. Get to know the doctors treating you.

Clinic director

Prof. Dr. Volkmar Falk, Ärztlicher Direktor des DHZC

Prof. Dr. med. Volkmar Falk


Chief Medical Director, DHZC, Director, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Chairman of the DHZC Divisional managers

Clinical directorate

Consultant to the clinic directorate 

Nathalie Scholz
T: +49 30 4593 2000
nathalie.scholz@dhzc-charite.de

Management assistance

Serap Bulut and Sümeyra Inal
T: +49 30 4593 2000
F: +49 30 4593 2100
herzchirurgie@dhzc-charite.de

Senior physicians

Prof. Dr. med Stephan Jacobs


Deputy Departmental Director, Senior Consultant

Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Kempfert


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Starck


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Prof. Dr. med. Felix Schönrath


Senior Consultant for heart failure and heart transplantation CVK

PD Dr. Herko Grubitzsch


Senior Physician

Senior physicians

PD Dr. med. Matthias Bauer


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Dr. med. Jörg Brandes


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Dr. med. Semih Buz


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

PD Dr. med. Torsten Christ


Senior physician

Dr. Simon Dushe


Senior physician

Prof. h.c. Dr. med. Volker Düsterhöft


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Denis Fries


Senior Physician Intensive Care Medicine

Maren Godde


Senior Physician

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Onnen Grauhan MBA


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Dr. med. Robert Hammerschmidt


Senior physician

PD Dr. Sebastian Holinski


Senior physician

PD Dr. med. Isabell Just-Lauer


Senior physician

Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Knosalla


Senior Consultant, Surgical Head of the transplant programme, DZHK Professor

PD Dr. med. Markus Kofler, MSc


Oberarzt

Dr. med. Laurenz Kopp Fernandes


Oberarzt

Dr. med. Nicolas Merke


Senior physician, Head of Echocardiography HTG

Evelin Meye


Senior physician

Prof. Dr. med. Evgenij Potapov


Senior Cardiac Surgeon, Head Mechanical Circulatory Support Team, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Dr. med. Gerard Schmidt


Senior physician WD2I, Head of aortic telephone

Dr. Paul Schmidt-Hellinger


Senior Physician, Head of Pneumology Lung Transplant Programme

Prof. Dr. med. habil. Christof Stamm


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

PD Dr. Simon Sündermann


Senior physician

PD Dr. med. Axel Unbehaun


Medical Director SHIP (Structural Heart Interventions Programme)
Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon

Karsten Weller


Oberarzt

Address

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
Augustenburger Platz 1
13353 Berlin

Contact details: Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
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