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Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

Education

1994 to 2000 Studies of human medicine, Sulaimani University, Sulaimani (Iraq)
2002 to 2010

Training as a specialist in cardiac surgery: Vascular and thoracic surgery, Rendsburg, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

2002 Specialist knowledge in radiation protection
2006 Rescue service expertise
2008 USMLE 1, 2 and 3 (ECFMG certification)
2010 Specialist for heart surgery
2011

Habilitation, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf: "Development and Preclinical Testing of a Novel Non-Pulsatile Right Ventricular Assist Device"

2018 Specialist in thoracic surgery
2022 Additional qualification in intensive care medicine

Career Path

2002 to 2003

Resident, Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rendsburg District Hospital, academic teaching hospital of Kiel University

2003 to 2006

Research assistant, Clinic for Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center Bad Oeynhausen, University Clinic of the Ruhr University Bochum

2006 to 2008

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

2008 to 2009

Advanced Clinical Fellow, Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

2009 to 2012

Research assistant, Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

2012 to 2018

Senior physician, head of the artificial heart program and deputy head of the heart transplant program, Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

2018 to 2022

Senior and Managing Senior Physician and Head of Division, Artificial Heart and Heart Transplantation, University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Helios Heart Center Leipzig

since 2022

Chief Physician, Clinic for Cardiac and Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of the Helios Heart Center Lower Rhine,

Helios Hospital Krefeld

Academic activities

  • 2017

Adjunct professorship, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Memberships

  • Board member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
  • Member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
  • Member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons (AATS)
  • Member of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
  • Member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
  • Member of CTS Net
  • Member of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG)
  • Member of the General Medical Council (GMC), England

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