valvular heart disease
- Diagnostic echocardiography:
- 3D transthoracic (from the outside)
- 3D transesophageal (swallowing echo, via the esophagus)
- Stress echocardiography (during/after exercise)
- Interventional echocardiography during percutaneous valve interventions (aortic valve replacement (TAVI), mitral valve reconstruction (Mitraclip), atrial appendage/PFO/ASD closure and paravalvular leak closure)
- Perioperative echocardiography for all cardiac surgery procedures
- Intervention/surgery planning using cardiac computed tomography
- Exercise tests (spiro/ergometry, 6-minute walking test)
- Resting ECG, long-term ECG
- Heart checkup
- General internal medicine
since July 2013
Head of Heart Imaging, Hirslanden Heart Clinic, Zurich
2010 – 2013
Senior Physician Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich
2005 – 2008
Resident in Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich
2004 – 2005
Senior physician in internal medicine, Aarau Cantonal Hospital
2003
Resident in anesthesiology, Waid City Hospital, Zurich
2002
Resident in Internal Medicine, Triemli City Hospital, Zurich
1999 – 2001
Resident in Internal Medicine, Biel Hospital Center
2023
Adjunct Professor of Cardiology, University of Zurich
2022
CAS in advanced technology of energy
2013
Habilitation University of Zurich. Title: Modern techniques of echocardiography and their significance in everyday clinical practice.
2010
Specialist in cardiology, Switzerland
2009
Certification of Special Competence in Adult
Echocardiography, National Board of Echocardiography, USA
2008 – 2010
Fellowship in Echocardiography, Toronto General Hospital, Canada
2004
Specialist in internal medicine
1998
Doctor of Medicine, Bern Faculty of Medicine
Title: The surgical treatment of hemifacial spasm using the microvascular decompression method (Prof. Dr. med. R. Seiler)
1992 – 1998
Faculty of Medicine Bern, graduation with state examination
Secretary to Prof. Dr. med. Patric Biaggi
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