Ulf Landmesser

Professor Ulf Landmesser acts since October 2014 as Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and since 2016 as Medical Director of the Charité Center for Cardiovascular Medicine. After his medical studies at the Medical School of Hannover, the University of Con necticut in Farmington (USA) and the National Heart&Lung Institute in London, he specialised in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Medical School of Hannover. In 2000/2001 he performed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Cardiolo gy at the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (USA) as a scholar of the Al exander von Humboldt Foundation and received the Outstanding Fellows in Cardiol ogy Special Recognition Award. He was then appointed Consultant Cardiologist at the Medical School of Hannover, Germany. In 2007, he was called as Senior Consultant Cardiologist with a focus on acute and interventional cardiology and as director of translational cardiovascular research to the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Zurich (Swit zerland), where he later acted as Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiology. He received the Götz Award in 2012, the official award of the medical faculty of the Uni versity of Zurich. In 2014 he was called as chairman of the Department of Cardiology to the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany). Since 2008 he serves as Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal, the leading cardiovascular journal in Europe. Professor Landmesser has a particular research interest in translational and clinical development of novel therapeutic and management strategies for prevention of car diovascular disease.