Ulf Landmesser
Director
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany
Biography
Professor Ulf Landmesser acts since October 2014 as Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CBF). After his medical studies at the Medical School of Hannover, the University of Connecticut in Farmington (USA) and the National Heart&Lung Institute in London, he specialised in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Medical School of Hannover. In 2000/2001 he performed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (USA) as a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was then appointed Consultant Cardiologist at the Medical School of Hanover, Germany. In 2007, he was called as Senior Consultant Cardiologist with a focus on acute and interventional cardiology as well as on translational cardiovascular research to the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Zurich, where he later acted as Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiology. He received the Götz Award in 2012, the official award of the medical faculty of the University of Zurich. He serves since 2008 as Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal.
Research Interest
Acute and interventional cardiology,cardiovascular