Higher education and employment

 

1970 - 1976

Studies of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Marburg

 

1976

Medical examination

 

1977

Internship at the University Hospitals Giessen and Marburg (internal medicine,

anesthesiology, cardiovascular surgery)

 

1977 - 1978

Study of Dentistry at the University of Giessen

 

1978

Examination in Dentistry

 

 

 

1978 - 1983

Resident at the Department for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Giessen

 

1989, 1990 

Two sabbaticals as a visiting Professor at the Carolinas Heart Research Center

Charlotte / NC (Prof. Robiscek, Dr. Svenson):

Laser-arrhythmia surgery, lasers in Cardiovascular Surgery

 

1983 - 1990

Senior registrar at the Department for Cardiovascular Surgery; laser surgery, 

pedriatric transplantation

 

 

1990 - 1994

C3-Professor and vice chairman at the Department for Cardiovascular Surgery,

University Hospital Bonn

 

 

1994 - 2017 

C4-Professor and chairman, Department for Cadiovascular Surgery,

University Hospital Marburg

 

2001 - 2005

Vice Medical Director,

University Hospital Marburg

 

2005 - 2011 

Medical Director, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg - Campus Marburg

 

 

Board certifications for Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery

 

 

Scientific career

 

1976

Doctoral thesis in pathology (summa cum laude) for the title of a Dr. med.

 

1989

Habilitation (Dr. med. habil.) for Cardiovascular Surgery with a thesis about

special laser interventions in atherosclerosis and cardiac arrhythmias

 

1989

Assistant Professor for CV-Surgery,

University Hospital Giessen

 

1990 - 1994

Full Professor for CV-Surgery,

University Hospital Bonn

 

1994

Full Professor and Chairman,

 

University Hospital Marburg

 

1998 - 2002

Member of the Fachbereichsrat - Medical Faculty Board - Marburg

 

1999 - 2001 

Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty

 

 

 

Member of the

 

German Society for Cardiovascular Surgery

STS

AHA (FAHA)

AAAS (Science)

Scientific reviewer for DGTHG, STS, AAAS, multiple international  journals

 

Chairman of the board of Medical Network Hessen,

a government associated international representative of Hessen Medicine,

Hessen Ambassodor for Medicine and Healthcare.

Member of several political delegations visiting Eastern Europe, Arab and

African countries.

 

 

 

 

Languages

 

German

English

French

Latin

 

 

Selected publications

 

 

1.CD 34+ fibrocytes in normal mitral valves and myxomatous

   mitral valve degeneration

   Barth PJ, Köster H, Moosdorf R

   Pathol Res Pract.2005; 201(4):301-4

 

2.Indications for  angiography subsequent to coronary artery 

   bypass grafting

   Alter P, Vogt S, Herzum M, Irqsusi M, Rupp H, Maisch B,

   Moosdorf R

   Am Heart J. 2005 Jun; 149(6): 1082-90

 

3.Detection of anti-hsp 70 immunglobulin G antibodies

   Indicates better outcome in coronary artery bypass grafting

   Patients suffering from severe preoperative angina

   Vogt S, Portig I, Kusch B, Pankuweit S, Sirat AS, Troitzsch D

   Maisch B, Moosdorf R

   Ann Thorac Surg. 2004 Sep; 78(3): 883-9

 

4.Transmyocardial laser revascularization

   Moosdorf R

   Lancet 1999 May 15; 353(9165):1705-6; author reply 1706-7

 

5.Transmyocardial laser revascularization – morphologic,

   pathophysiologic and historical principles of indirect  re-

   vascularization of the heart muscle

   Moosdorf R, Schoebel FC, Hort W

   Z Kardiol. 1997 Mar; 86 (3): 149-64

 

6.Epicardial neodymium YAG laser photocoagulatio of

   ventricular tachycardia without ventriculotomy in patients

   after myocardial infarction

   Pfeiffer D, Moosdorf R, Svenson RH, Littmann L, Grimm W,

   Kirchhoff PG, Lüderitz B

   Circulation. 1996 Dec 15; 94(12): 3221-5