Cardiac Surgery: Operations on the Heart and Great Vessels in Adults and Children

About

Gerhard Ziemer MD PhD is currently Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago Illinois USA. He is also Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Comer Childrens Hospital and Director of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Prior to moving to Chicago he served for 15 years as Professor of Surgery and Director of the Department Thoracic Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen Germany. Dr. Ziemer specializes in a wide range of congenital cardiac surgery procedures including complex primary and multistage repair in newborns as well as primary and repeat surgery in adults. In 1989 he performed the first successful neonatal autograft aortic valve replacement (Ross operation) in the world. Each year Dr. Ziemer visits Lima Peru to operate on 20-25 children with congenital heart disease and he is an Honorary Professor at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. Dr. Ziemer has been involved in many international scientific societies and academic boards. Since 2005 he has been an Examiner in Cardiac Surgery for the European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. He was a member of the Founding Governing Council of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and also is a member of the editorial board for the World Journal for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery.Axel Haverich MD is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery and serves as Director of the Department of Cardiac Thoracic Transplantatiion and Vascular Surgery. Prof. Haverich serves as Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Vital Sensors Inc. He served as president for various national and international societies. He studied at Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany.