2000 - 2005 ✧ Hospital Vienna-Lainz, Austria - senior Consultant Cardiac Surgery

Part-time visiting consultant cardiac curgeon at the city hospital Vienna-Lainz parallel my main interest as CEO and entrepreneur to start a a private Heart Centre.

Main responsibility was to perform complex and 'difficult' cardiac surgical interventions as well as most redo-operations, to train and teach the younger consultants with special focus on advanced mitral valve repair surgery.

Research 

° Clinical research programs to study long-term results of mitral valve ;repair surgery.

° Cooperation with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut for Applied Cardiovascular Biology, by clinically applying the technique of in vitro endothelialization of vascular grafts, a technique we have developed a century earlier in Vienna. Furthermore, started an experimental research program involving stem cells and tissue engineering techniques for cardiovascular implants. 

Since 2003  Consultant, education and training agreement with Medtronic Europe for special advanced mitral repair surgery and participate in teaching workshops in Europe.

since 2002 Scientific Advisory Board Member of the International 'Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology’

2000 CEO and co-Founder of the IMC Health-Travel (Purpose of this start-up company 'IMC Health-Travel' is the organization of patient incoming and ‘health tourism' to Austria)