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Connective tissue disease - task force

Members

Florian Schoenhoff

VASCULAR DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2020-2023

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Chair 2020-2023

BIOGRAPHY

Florian Schoenhoff is an associate professor of surgery and consultant cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. He received his MD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and trained in cardiac surgery in Bern with a special focus on diseases of the thoracic aorta. He spent 2 years as a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA, working on biomarkers in patients with connective tissue disorders. Florian is responsible for the Marfan clinics in Bern, seeing patients with connective tissue disorders and cardiovascular involvement, as well as patients with complex aortic disease in general.

Umberto Benedetto

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2020-2023

Wei Guo Ma

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2020-2023

Alessandro Della Corte

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2020-2023

Kenji Minatoya

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2020-2023

Christian Etz

Cerebral and Visceral Protection - Task Force

Member 2020-2023

Bashi Velayudhan

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2018-2021

Miklos Polos

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2018-2021

Maximilian Luehr

Connective Tissue Disease - Task Force

Member 2020-2023

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Maximilian Luehr graduated from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg School of Medicine in Germany in 2009. He started his cardiac surgery residency at the Leipzig Heart Center of the University of Leipzig under Professor Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr (2010-2015). Dr. Luehr completed his training and started his professional career as a staff cardiac surgeon at the University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich under Professor Christian Hagl (2015-2020). In 2020, he moved to the Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery of the Heart Center Cologne. Although his professional interests comprise all aspects of cardiovascular surgery, his major academic and research interest focused on aortic surgery since 2005. In 2006, he completed a research year at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, USA, and studied experimental aortic surgery with his mentors Professor Randall B. Griepp and Professor Christian D. Etz. Since then he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles. In 2019, he was elected to the board of directors of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG).
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