Specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, additional qualification in emergency medicine; additional qualification in interventional cardiology (DGK)
Studied medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, doctoral thesis 2003-2004 at Mount Sinai Hospital New York/ USA.
Further training at the University Hospitals of Cologne and Jena, 2012 – 2015 Senior physician and head of the programme for interventional aortic valve replacement/ TAVI at the University Heart Centre Jena (Prof. HR Figulla).
Clinical and research specialisms: interventional cardiology and structural interventions; intensive care medicine.
Prizes and awards: Innovation Prize of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 2008 and 2010, 1st Rudolf Thauer Poster Prize of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) 2011, Publication Prize of the ‘Interventional Cardiology’ working group Cardiology 2011, Best Poster Awards/ Moderated Poster Awards/ Award Valvular Heart Disease TCT 2009, 2011 and 2012, ESC 2012 and ACC 2012.
