Prof. Dr. Volkmar Falk

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About Prof. Dr. Volkmar Falk Prof. Dr. Volkmar Falk is one of the finest Cardiac Surgeons in Berlin, Germany with the experience of 22+ years in the field. He is a member of both the German and the European Society for Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG/EACTS), the European Society for Cardiology (ESC), International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (ISMICS), the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and numerous other associations and societies. He was also a co-founder of the Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) at the University of Leipzig, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Falk studied human medicine at the Univerity of Bonn in 1986 and received his doctorate there in 1993. Later, he did his surgical training at the University of Göttingen and completed his specialist training at the Clinic for Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center.  In 2000, he was awarded the Ulrich Karsten Prize of the German Society for Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery for his habilitation thesis. Dr. Chiran’s area of interest, apart from routine surgeries includes Mitral Valve Repairs, Surgery for Heart Failure, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, ASD, VSD, Left Ventricular Aneurysm Surgery, Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy, etc. He has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific publications and is the co-editor of the European Heart Journal.