Christian-Friedrich Vahl
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Christian-Friedrich Vahl (born 1955 in Zeven) is a German cardiac surgeon. He is director of the Clinic for Heart, Thorax and Vascular surgery at the University of Mainz.
Biography
Vahl studied medicine, art history, philosophy and sociology. He absolved the study of medicine between 1975 and 1981 at the University Hospital of Göttingen and at the University Hospital of Heidelberg. He was scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. From 1979 to 81 Vahl spent an academic year abroad at the University of Madrid. 1986 he e graduated with the medical doctor degree (Dr. med). From 1981 to 84 he made a scientific basic education at the University of Hamburg followed ba trainings at the Deutsches Herzzentrum München and at the Augsburg Hospital. Then he took part in the project "quality assurance in the cardiac surgery".bqs-qualify.com: [http://www.bqs-qualify.com/download/Herzbericht_2001.pdf Projektbericht] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105409/http://www.bqs-qualify.com/download/Herzbericht_2001.pdf |date=2 April 2015 }} In 1988 he changed to the University of Heidelberg where was habilitated in 1995. Since 2004 Vahl is director of the Clinic for Heart-, Thorax- and Vascular Surgery at the University of Mainz. He was appointed associate professor at the University of Heidelberg in 2002.[http://www.leading-medicine-guide.de/Experte-Herzchirurgie-Mainz-Prof-Vahl-Lebenslauf#teaserFC Vahl Lebenslauf]
Honors and awards
- Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation
- Scholar at the Colegio Mayor "Diego de Covarrubias" at the University of Madrid
- Ernst-Derra-Price of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery[http://www.medfuehrer.de/Mainz/Klinik/Herzchirurgie/Universitaetsmedizin-der-Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet-Mainz/Arzt-Team/Prof-Dr-med-Christian-Friedrich-Vahl medführer.de]
- Chair of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG)[http://www.dgthg.de/en DGTHG (English)]
- Member of the board of the German Society of Surgery
- European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Academic memberships
Vahl is member in the presume of the German Society of Surgerydgch.de: [http://www.dgch.de/deutsch/ueber-die-dgch/organe/praesidium/ List of the board members of the German Society of Surgery] (German)
Further memberships:
- European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)[http://www.eacts.org EACTS]
- European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS)[http://www.esvs.org ESVS]
Publications
Vahl is author of more than 400 scientific publications.
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Vahl2 ResearchGate Publication list]
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150302175842/http://www.unimedizin-mainz.de/htg/patienten/mitarbeiter.html Christian Friedrich Vahl, University of Mainz]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeDnvGElv6Q Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Christian-Friedrich Vahl – Mainz – Cardiac Surgery (YouTube)]
- [http://www.unimedizin-mainz.de/fileadmin/kliniken/htg/Dokumente/Medienkonvergenz-Projekte.pdf Prof. Dr. Christian-Friedrich Vahl: Die Herzchirurgie Mainz im Forschungsschwerpunkt Medien-konvergenz]
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