Prof. Dr. Pascal Dohmen
Specialist in cardiac surgery
Since the beginning of my medical studies, I have been intensively and passionately involved with the cardiovascular system.
Both during my studies and as a clinician, I dealt with clinical problems, analyzed them and developed practical solutions. In 2000, after a long period of research at the Charité, we performed the world’s first successful transplantation of a cultivated heart valve, which was awarded the internationally renowned “C. Walter Lillehei Award”. This was followed by numerous international visits to countries such as Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Italy, South Africa and the USA to pass on and share these findings. This was the beginning of personalized patient treatment, which focuses on the individual patient.
In the years that followed, we established treatment methods that combine various innovative procedures with each other and combine the best of both worlds with great success in the so-called “hybrid procedure”.
The THERA Praxisklinik focuses on the prevention and individual treatment of chronic illnesses and stress, expanded to include cardiovascular diseases.
The aim is to use state-of-the-art diagnostic procedures and to develop an individual prevention strategy and special treatment methods on the basis of an interdisciplinary holistic therapy concept. A natural and gentle strategy is used to bring you back into a healthy balance.
This is always done according to the latest scientific findings.
Vita
- Born 1971 in Maastricht (NL)
- Baccalaureate 1990 in Maaseik (B), Limburg.
- 1990-1997 Studied human medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, “Medical Doctor”, Belgium
- 1993-1996 Employee at the Center for Experimental Surgery and Anesthesiology (CEHA) in Leuven, Belgium
- 1997-1999 Employee at the European Tissue Bank in Brussels, Belgium
- 1997-2002 Further training as a cardiac surgeon at the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 2002 Specialist in cardiac surgery
- 2003 Dissertation “A novel heart valve for reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract”
- 2006 Habilitation and award of venia legendi for “Cardiac Surgery” and appointment as private lecturer
- 2008-2010 Deputy Clinic Director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 2010-2014 University Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig University
- 2013 Appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Free State University in Bloemfontein, South Africa
- 2014-2016 Head of Research and Teaching at the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- 2016-2017 University Professor and Clinic Director for Cardiac Surgery at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, European Medical School
- 2017-2023 Head of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Cardiac Surgery, Rostock University Medical Center, University of Rostock
- “Top Physician 2023” award, Focus Gesundheit
- Private medical practice in Berlin since 2024
Member of several regional, national and international associations and societies
