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The SHIP team

On this page we introduce the team of the Structural Heart Interventions Program (SHIP).

Medical management

Prof. Dr. Henryk Dreger


W2 Professur
Medical Director SHIP (cross-campus)
Head of Development, Invasive Cardiology CVK

PD Dr. med. Axel Unbehaun


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

Coordination and secretarial services

SHIP Coordination

Viola Fischer, Marcel Heppe
and Sebastian Rahmlow

T: +49 30 450 565 800
ship@dhzc-charite.de

Management assistance and secretarial services

Djamila Litim 
Assistant manager
T: +49 30 450 565855  
djamila.litim@dhzc-charite.de

Senior physicians of W3 and W2i

PD Dr. Alessio Alogna


Senior Physician
Head of SHIP W2i, Head of Inpatient Management CVK

Dr. med. Lena Reichert, MHBA


Senior Physician Ward W2i CVK

Dr. Anja Schmidt


Senior physician for internal medicine and cardiology CVK

Doctors in cardiology

Dr. Stephan Dreysse


Senior Physician
Deputy Head of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, CVK

PD Dr. med. Christoph Klein


Senior Physician
Head of Structural Heart Disease

Prof. Dr. med. Tobias Petzold


Interventional cardiology, intensive care medicine

Dr. med. univ. Markus Reinthaler


Head of Structural Heart Disease

Dr. med. Elena Romero Dorta


Senior Physician, Interventional Echocardiography; Head of Functional Diagnostics and Echo Laboratory CCM

Prof. Dr. med. Sebastian Spethmann


Deputy Clinic Director Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine

PD Dr. Tobias Trippel


Managing Senior Physician, Senior Physician, CVK; Head of SHIP Outpatient Clinic and Deputy Head of Structural Heart Disease CVK

Doctors in cardiac surgery

Dr. Simon Dushe


Senior physician

Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Kempfert


Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

PD Dr. Simon Sündermann


Senior physician

Cardioanaesthesia doctors

Dr. med. Torsten Geyer


Senior physician

Dr. med. Holger Köth


Senior physician

PD Dr. med. Marian Kukucka


Senior Anesthesiologist

Dr. med. Gunther Mai


Senior Anesthesiologist

Nursing

Thomas Kibat


Station W1i/W2i, Nursing management

Susanne Markgraf-Pawlowski


Ward W3, Nursing management

Markus Burkert


Deputy Nursing Director of the intensive care units W1i and W2i

Nora Thiel


Deputy Head of Nursing Ward W3

Eine junge Frau mit langen, braunen Haaren lächelt freundlich in die Kamera. Sie trägt ein blaues medizinisches Outfit und steht in einem hellen Raum mit großen Fenstern im Hintergrund.

Janice Illing


Patient coordination SHIP ambulance