Brief Biography:
Surgery
Hospital Barmherzige Brüder, Linz; Austria 1981
I.University Department for Surgery, Innsbruck, Austria 1981-1992
Division for Artificial Organs, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 1983
Texas Heart Institute, Houston, USA 1984 - 1985
Cardiale Heelkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 1992 - 94
University Department for Cardiac Surgery, Charité, Berlin, Germany, 1994 - 97
Surgical Department, Cardio-Vascular Center, KH Vienna-Hietzing, Vienna, Austria 1997 - present
Deputy Director 1998 - 2002
Present occupation
Senior staff member: I. Surgical Department, Cardio-Vascular Surgical Center, KH Vienna-Hietzing, Austria
Areas of expertise
3000 heart operations. Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms, Neuromonitoring, Neuroprotection, Beating Heart Surgery, Aortic Valve Surgery, Total Quality Management, Process Management
Academic positions:
Professor at Vienna Medical School and at Steyr University for Applied Sciences, Process Management Health Care
Research interests:
• Innsbruck, Austria, I.University Clinic for Surgery,
Total Artificial Hearts
• Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Division of Artificial Organs
Total Artificial Heart and Ventricular Assist Devices
• Houston, Texas, USA, Texas Heart Institute
Ventricular Assist Devices, Cardiac Transplantation
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Assist devices, stunning, pulmonary hypertension
• Charité Berlin, Germany
Assist devices, controlled reperfusion, stunning, alternatives to HTx, coronary revascularization on a beating heart (OPCAB)
• Vienna, Austria
Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms, Thoraco-Abdominal Aneurysms
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