Consultants

Qualifications:

MD

Special Interests:

Interventional Cardiology; heart failure (both clinically and scientific studies in clinical and molecular heart failure research); general cardiology (valve disease, complex cases)

Biography

Medical School training in Mainz, Germany, Montpellier, France and Westminster Medical School, London. Training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Hospitals of Zurich, Switzerland and Bonn, Germany. Training in special interventional techniques at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA. Assistant Professor of Medicine in 1991 1994 – 2001 Associate Professor of Medicine, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Germany. Scientific training with M.P. Dierich, Institute of Immunology, Mainz, Germany, Dep. of Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland , E. Carafoli, Institute of Biochemistry, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, Dep. of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC. Present research: Molecular investigations using state-of-the-art transgenic, knock-out and haemodynamic technology and clinical trials. We also apply novel technology to clinical problems. Membership of Professional Bodies Scientific Council of the American Heart Association British Cardiovascular Society British Biochemical Society Working Group on Hypertension and the Heart of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cellular Biology of the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology German Cardiac Society and German Society of Internal Medicine