Standing on your shoulders: Friedhelm Beyersdorf
In this episode, our hosts Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü and Miia L Lehtinen, chat to Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Beyersdorf, eminent cardiothoracic surgeon and past-President of the EACTS (2021 – 2022), about his career – how he got to where is today, the challenges he faced along the way, and his thoughts on the future of cardiothoracic surgery.
Acquired Cardiac Disease
Congenital Heart Disease
Thoracic Disease
Vascular Disease
Guest speakers:
Prof. Dr. Beyersdorf was born in Bochum, Germany and is a graduate from the Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/M. with clinical clerkship at Johns-Hopkins in Baltimore and Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. His residency was at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt and University of California Los Angeles. From 1994 – 2022 he was Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery in Freiburg, Germany.
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