Professor Ulf Landmesser
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To be suppliedDirector, Department of Cardiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Medical Lead, CharitéCenter Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor of Cardiology
Hindenburgdamm 30, D-12203 Berlin, Germany
Professor Ulf Landmesser acts since 2014 as Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He serves as Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal, the leading cardiovascular journal in Europe, and acts on the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) Committee of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
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 Cardiolo-gy at the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (USA) as a scholar of the Al-exander von Humboldt Foundation. He received there the “Outstanding Fellows in Cardiology Special Recognition Award.” He was then appointed Consultant Cardiologist at the Medical School of Hannover, Germany. In 2007, he was called as Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Head of translational cardiovascular research to the Department of Cardiology at the University of Zürich, where he received the Götz Award in 2012, the official award of the medical faculty of the University of Zurich.
His research interest is focused on novel approaches to improve prevention and treatment of coronary disease. He has published more than 400 papers.
