Prof. Dr. med. Volkmar Falk

1| Postgraduate professional career

2023-today

Medical Director, Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery & Chairman

of the DHZC Divisional Board of German Heart Center of Charité (DHZC)

2019-today

Professor for Translational Cardiovascular Technologies,

2014-today

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

Chairman,

Medical Director and Director, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery,

Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin (DHZB) and

Full Professor for Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Charité –

Universitätsmedizin Berlin

2009-2014

Director Dept. of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

2007-2009

Professor for Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Germany

2006-2009

Senior consultant, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Institute, University of Leipzig

2003-2006

Senior consultant for minimally invasive cardiac surgery Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart

Institute, University of Leipzig

1999-2000

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

1998-2003

Consultant, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Institute, University of Leipzig

1994-1998

Residency, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Georg August University,

Göttingen and Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Institute, University of Leipzig

2| Advanced academic qualifications

2002

Board certified in Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Medicine

2001

Habilitation in Heart Surgery,

Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Friedrich-W. Mohr)

1998

Board certified Heart Surgeon

1995-1996

United States Medical Licensing Examination, Part I and II

1993

Doctorate in Heart Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Friedrich-W. Mohr)

3| University training and degree

1986-1992

Medical Faculty, University Bonn, Final examinations and license to practice medicine

(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Friedrich-W. Mohr)

1994-1998

Residency, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Georg August University,

Göttingen and Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Institute, University of Leipzig

4| Other

Ulrich Karsten Prize of the German Society for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery for

“Habilitation“ thesis "Experimental development and clinical implementation of a procedure for

endoscopic myocardial revascularization using a computer-guided telemanipulator“ | 2000