Johann Bauersachs - Biography#

Professor Bauersachs acts as Head of the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Hannover Medical School (MHH). He studied Medicine at the University of Freiburg. After training as Clinical and Research Fellow at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg/ Mannheim, in 1999 he moved to the University Hospital Wuerzburg where he became Consultant and Lecturer in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, and was Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine from 2008 to 2010. Since 2010 Johann Bauersachs has been a Full Professor and Director of the MHH Department of Cardiology and Angiology.

Professor Bauersachs is Fellow of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Fellow of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, Chair of the HFA Committee on Peripartum Cardiomyopathies (PPCM), and Co-Chair of the worldwide EORP Registry on PPCM.

He is Speaker of the Clinical Research Group (KFO) 311 “(Pre-) terminal heart and lung failure -mechanical unloading and repair” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Professor Bauersachs is Board member of the German Cardiac Society (DGK).

Professor Bauersachs is an interventional cardiologist with special interests in acute coronary syndromes, left ventricular healing and remodelling, acute and chronic heart failure, as well as intensive care. He is particularly interested in the pathophysiology and treatment of PPCM, in aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptor-mediated mechanisms, and in the role of non-coding RNAs.

Professor Bauersachs is Principal Investigator of HF-REVERT (Phase 2 study to assess the microRNA inhibitor CDR132L in patients after myocardial infarction). He is Study Chair of the DIGIT-HF study investigating the effect of Digitoxin on morbidity/mortality in patients with advanced heart failure, and is extensively involved in many other clinical trials.

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