Medical Director
Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité
Berlin, Germany
Professor Volkmar Falk is Medical Director and Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery of the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Chairman of the DHZC Divisional Board & Professor for Translational Cardiovascular Technologies at the ETH, Zurich.
After successfully completing Medical School and his doctorate at the University of Bonn he began his basic surgical training at the University in Göttingen and completed his residency at the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the Heart Center Leipzig. From 1998 to 2003 he held the position of a senior surgeon there, with an interruption of his clinical work for a one year research fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. In 2001 he completed his “Habilitation” (German post-doctoral university teaching qualification) and in 2003 he became a senior consultant. From 2009-2014 Falk was appointed professor and director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospital in Zurich. In 2014 he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Charite Berlin and became the medical director and director of the DHZB Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery of the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin. Since 12/2018 he was appointed professor for Translational Cardiovascular Technologies at the ETH, Zurich.
In 2023 the German Heart Center Berlin merged with the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Prof. Volkmar Falk became the Medical Director, Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and the Chairman of the DHZC Divisional Board in the new German Heart Center of Charité (DHZC).
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