Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Photiadis
Director of the Department of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery
Professional career
2016
Professor of Congenital Heart Disease Surgery at Charité
October 2012
Teaching license in cardiac surgery / University of Münster
August 2012
Director of the Clinic for Congenital Heart Disease Surgery / Pediatric Heart Surgery
February 2008
Awarded the certificate in ‘Congenital Heart Disease Surgery’
Since 2006
Senior Physician
2004 - 2005
Attending Physician
Oct. 2002
German Pediatric Heart Center, Sankt Augustin
July 2001 - Sep. 2002
Senior Physician at the German Heart Center Berlin
Jan.-May 2001
Fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Collaboration with Mr. B. Sethia, Sir M. Yacoub, Dr. M. Gatzoulis
Fellowship at the Heart Hospital and Great Ormond Street
Hospitals Collaboration with Marc DeLeval, J. Deanfield, A.
Reddington, Care of pediatric patients in intensive care
Sep. - Nov. 2000
Fellowship at Children's Hospital Philadelphia. Surgical therapy and
pre- and post-operative management of HLHS: G. Wernowsky and T. Spray
Jan. 1999 - Jul. 2000
Fellowship at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
Care in the interdisciplinary intensive care unit,
Collaboration with TR. Karl and Chr. Brizard
1992- 1999
Specialist training in cardiac surgery at the German Heart Center Berlin (1999)
Education
1985 -1992
Medical studies at Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg
1994 and 2000
USMLE Step I, II, and III
1992
License to practice medicine, dissertation “Magna cum laude”: “Hemodynamic effects of endothelin” published: Hemodynamic actions of intravenous endothelin in rats: comparison with sodium nitroprusside and methoxamine. American Journal of Physiology 259 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 27): H337- H346, 1990
Practical year
August 1991
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard, Boston
April - July 1991
Cardiac Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Ann Arbor
1987 – 1990
Research assistant in dissection and histology course, Heidelberg Anatomical Institute
Editor
Since 2008
Newsletter Insights Innovations at the Asklepios Clinic Sankt Augustin for referring physicians
Reviewer
Since 2006
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Circulation
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
