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Head of the Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich. Professor Lüscher is a board certified internist and cardiologist with training in internal medicine at the University Hospital Zurich, cardiovascular physiology and cardiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., USA and in cardiology and clinical pharmacology at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Heart Journal.
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas F. Lüscher
Professor and Chairman of Cardiology
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Dr. Christian Templin qualified from the Medical School of Hanover, Germany. He started his career as a clinical and research Fellow at the Medical School of Hanover, Germany and Boston, USA. He achieved the board certification in Emergency Medicine (2008), Internal Medicine (2009) and Cardiology (2010). In 2009 he awarded a Fellowship for the Special Program University Medicine (SPUM) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2011 he works as attending physician in interventional cardiology and acute cardiac care at the Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital of Zurich. In the same year he received the prestigious Scientific Prize of the Swiss Society of Cardiology for original research work in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Templin is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiolgy (FESC). His main research focus is in regenerative medicine and in the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases.
PD Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Christian Templin
Principal Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 95 85
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Dr. Jelena Ghadri graduated from the Medical School of Hannover, Germany and Medical School of Aberdeen, United Kingdom in 2006. In 2006-2007 she started her research and clinical fellowship at the Medical School of Hannover at the Department of Internal Medicine, Division Nephrology and Hypertension. In 2008 she joined a clinical fellowship at the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Zurich. From 2010-2011 she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Cardiac Imaging at the University Hospital of Zurich. In 2011 Dr. Ghadri participated in a short-term fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Abhiram Prasad who is an expert in the field of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Since 2012 Dr. Ghadri is working in the Department of Cardiology as a resident and research fellow. Her main research interests are non-invasive cardiac imaging and the pathogenesis of takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
Dr. med. Jelena R. Ghadri
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 29 28
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
M. Asim Siddique did his B.Sc (Hons) Agriculture and M.Sc (Hons) Agronomy from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. From 2001-2011, he worked as a research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and the University Children`s Hospital Zurich on the different research projects. Since September 2011, he worked as a Data Manager at the Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich. His main focus is on the Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and CRF-documentation of two clinical trials of the EORTC (European Organization for Research and treatment of Cancer) Brian tumour Group: low grade Glioma Trial and CATNON.
Asim Siddique
Co-Investigator and Data Manager
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Graduation at the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland in 2007. After his medical studies he worked as an resident at Cardiology Care Unit and as a fellow of Cardioangiology Catheterization Laboratory of the I Department of Cardiology, University Clinic Center in Gdansk, Poland. Since 2010 research and clinical fellowship at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. His clinical and research interests are in the pathophysiology of cardiomyopathies, biomarkers and interventional cardiology.
Dr. med. Milosz Jaguszewski
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Moritz Schwyzer is a medical student from the University of Zurich and he is currently writing his master thesis and doctoral thesis about the Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital Zurich.
Cand. med. Moritz Schwyzer
Co-Investigator, IT- and Data-Manager
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Johanna Diekmann is a medical student from the Medical School of Hannover, Germany. She is writing her doctoral thesis about takotsubo cardiomyopathy at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital Zurich.
Johanna Diekmann
Co-Investigator, Doctoral Student
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Roxana Bataiosu is a medical student from the Ludwig-Maximillians-University of Munich. She is writing the doctoral thesis on the Takotsubo cardiomyopathy at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital Zurich.
Roxana Bataiosu
Co-Investigator, Doctoral Student
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 10 58
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Annahita Sarcon is a medical student from the University of California, Davis.
Annahita Sarcon
Co-Investigator
University of California, Davis