Prof. Matthias Gorenflo

Medical Director of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Diseases
at Heidelberg University Hospital

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Education

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Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Diseases

English, German

1985 (33 years since graduation)

1979 – 1985 : Freiburg University Medical School, Germany.

Consultant and Head of Department,
Dept. Paed. Cardiology,
Univ. Children’s Hospital
Heidelberg, Germany
Lecturer: Paediatric Cardiology,
University of Heidelberg, Germany

1986 – 1987 : Assistant, Surgical Pathology.

1987 – 1988 : Junior House Officer, Cardiology.

1988 – 1994 : Junior and Senior House Officer, Paediatrics Kinderklinik der FU Berlin (Prof. H. Helge).

1994 : Research Fellow Institute of Child Health, London (Prof. S.G. Haworth).

1995 : Registrar, Dept. Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Berlin, Germany.

1995 – 2008 : Registrar and Senior Registrar Dept. Paed. Cardiology, Univ. Med. Ctr. Heidelberg, Germany.

2000 : Senior Registrar (“Oberarzt”).

2008 – 2010 : Consultant – Paediatric Cardiology, UZ Leuven, KU Leuven – Leuven, Belgium.
Chair, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, University of Heidelberg Med. Ctr., Heidelberg, Germany.

March 1995 : Medical specialist examination: “Paediatrics“ (Berlin).
January 1998 : Certified Qualification: ”Paediatric Intensive Care” (Heidelberg).
June 2000 : Certified Qualification: “Paediatric Cardiology” (Karlsruhe).

1. German Society for Paediatric Cardiology, active member in working group “Interventional Cardiology”.
2. German Society for Cardiology (DGK), active member in working group: ”AG 25: Pulmonale Hypertonie”.
3. AEPC.
4. German Society for Neonatology and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine.
5. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin.