Helios Hospital Siegburg - Prof. Dr. Marc Vorpahl new Head of Cardiology, Rhythmology and Angiology

06/02/2024 10:02

Prof. Dr. med. Marc Vorpahl, a highly experienced cardiologist, joined the senior medical management team of Cardiology, Rhythmology and Angiology on October 1, 2023. The 48-year-old moved from Helios University Hospital Wuppertal to the Heart Center in Siegburg. He succeeds Prof. Dr. med. Peter Boekstegers.

Prof. Dr. med. Vorpahl joins Prof. Dr. med. René Andrié, also Head of Cardiology, Rhythmology and Electrophysiology, and Prof. Dr. med. Mirko Doss, Head of Cardiac Surgery, to complete the management team of the Siegburg Heart Center. "Our Heart Center has stood for modern, future-oriented high-performance medicine for over 25 years. Committed to this tradition, I am very pleased that with Prof. Dr. Vorpahl we have been able to gain a highly qualified and very experienced cardiologist for our clinic and the patients of the Heart Center," explains Sanja Popić, Clinic Director at Helios Hospital Siegburg.

Born in Cologne, he has been working for Helios for more than ten years. Since 2011, he has worked as a senior physician and since 2019 as Chief Physician of the Structural Heart Disease Section at Helios University Hospital Wuppertal. "My aim is to use current and new developments in cardiology with the highest medical quality. As an interventional cardiologist, I offer gentle examinations and treatment procedures on the heart using various catheters. A particular focus is on the treatment of heart valve diseases. This is an important 'building block' for our 'heart team' in Siegburg. I am very much looking forward to working with my colleagues here," says Prof. Vorpahl about his start in Siegburg.

The new head physician is a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology with additional qualifications in emergency medicine and internal intensive care medicine. Prof. Mark Vorpahl holds a professorship for structural heart disease at the University of Witten-Herdecke. He completed his medical studies at the Universities of Bochum, Essen, Bern and the Technical University of Munich. This was followed by clinical training at the Munich Heart Center, Klinikum rechts der Isar and Düsseldorf University Hospital. He also worked for two years as a fellow in the development of innovative interventional therapy procedures at the CVPath Institute in Maryland, USA. In his free time, the father of two is passionate about the work of early Dutch painters and garden design, and enjoys cycling with his wife.

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