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🔹Prof. Dr. med. Christian Schlensak, born in 1968, is the Medical Director and Professor at the University Clinic for Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
🔹He is also a certified pediatric cardiac surgeon. Christian Schlensak studied human medicine at the University of Essen and completed his specialist training in cardiac and vascular surgery after earning his doctorate in 1996.
🔹As a heart specialist, he conducted research stays at institutions such as the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery in Boston, USA, and the Hospital For Sick Children, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery in Toronto, Canada.
🔹In 2008, he performed the first infant heart transplant in Baden-Württemberg. As part of the "Kinderherzen retten" (Save Children's Hearts) initiative, which he co-founded, Christian Schlensak conducted numerous surgical missions to Asia and Central America.
🔹In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Universidad Autonoma De Santa Anna, El Salvador. As a co-founder and board member of the German Heart Competence Center Tübingen, he is part of the executive board of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG).
🔹1995: Assistant Physician, Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg
🔹2000: Clinical Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto, Canada
🔹2002: Senior Physician and Head of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg
🔹2004: Habilitation
🔹2006: Deputy Medical Director, Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg
🔹2008: Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Section, Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg
🔹2009: Chief Physician, Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Heart Center Bad Krozingen
🔹2011: Medical Director and Professor, Department of Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen
🔹Specialist in Cardiac Surgery
🔹Specialist in Vascular Surgery
🔹Optional Additional Qualification in Special Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Medicine
🔹Certificate in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery from the DGTHG (German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery)
