Affiliation:

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Augsburg University Hospital, Augsburg, Germany

Current Position

Since 01/2021       Director Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Augsburg / Full-Professor (W3)

University Augsburg

Academic Career / Positions held

2017 – 2020            Full-Professor (W2) / Co-Director / Senior Managing Physician

University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, UKE, Hamburg, Germany

2016 – 2020            Program Director “minimally invasive valve surgery”

University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, UKE, Hamburg, Germany

2014 – 2015           Co-Director – Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Hospital Bad Berka, Germany

2009 – 2013            Consultant – Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Hospital Bad Berka, Germany

2003 – 2008           Resident (Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Heart Center Leipzig, Germany

2002                          Approbation Graduation (Staatsexamen) in Medicine, grade: „sehr gut“ (A)

1996 – 2002           Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania

2000 – 2001           University of Leipzig, Germany (ERASMUS program)

1996                          High school Graduation, High school Kaunas, Lithuania

Scientific Career

2002 – 2003           Research-Fellowship (DAAD)

1-year full-time experimental research, University Heart Center Leipzig

2008                          Promotion in Medicine, University Leipzig, Grade: „summa cum laude“

2013                          Habilitation and Venia Legendi

Cardiac Surgery, granted by the Medical Faculty of University Leipzig

2016                          Research Fellowship (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)