Pan Vascular Medicine

?Vascular management and care has become a truly multidisciplinary enterprise as the number of specialists involved in the treatment of patients with vascular diseases has steadily increased. While in the past, treatments were delivered by individual specialists, in the twenty-first century a team approach is without doubt the most effective strategy. In order to promote professional excellence in this dynamic and rapidly evolving field, a shared knowledge base and interdisciplinary standards need to be established. Pan Vascular Medicine, 2nd edition has been designed to offer such an interdisciplinary platform, providing vascular specialists with state-of-the art descriptive and procedural knowledge. Basic science, diagnostics, and therapy are all comprehensively covered. In a series of succinct, clearly written chapters, renowned specialists introduce and comment on the current international guidelines and present up-to-date reviews of all aspects of vascular care.

Training

Human medicine - School of Medicine, Albert – Ludwigs University Freiburg/Breisgau; final exam 1976

Fellowship in Internal medicine – Wilhelms University Munster/Teaching Hospital Herford

Research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine – Cardiovascular Research Institute, University California San Francisco

Clinical fellowship in cardiology – University Hospitals and Clinics, University California San Francisco

Training in interventional cardiology – St. Vincent’s Hospital Indianapolis

Training in interventional vascular medicine - St. Vincent’s Hospital Indianapolis

Positions held

Professor cardiovascular medicine, University Birmingham, Alabama

Professor cardiovascular radiology, Charles Dotter Institute Portland, Oregon

Chief of staff, Heart Center Coswig

Director, Internal medicine and Chief of staff, Cardiovascular Medicine, Teaching Hospital, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Bitterfeld-Wolfen (current)

Board certifications

Internal medicine

Cardiology

Vascular medicine

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

Professional interests (current)

Cognitive skills in catheter-based cardiovascular therapy

Biology of vascular calcification

Personal

Married, 4 children

Interests: classical literature, student of Professor Harold Bloom, Yale; sports – any, but at present mostly cycling.