Max Schloss

Maximilian J. Schloss is a Cardiac Surgery Resident in the Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston. Maximilian grew up in Germany. In 2017, he graduated from Medical School at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with highest honors and received a Graduation Achievement Award. In 2018, he obtained his doctoral degree with summa cum laude and his dissertation was awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis of the year by the Medical Faculty. Following graduation, Maximilian completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 2018-2022, where he was supported by research grants such as the NIH T32 training grant and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award by the German Research Foundation. After his postdoctoral fellowship, he joined the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program at BWH in 2022, where he was awarded the John A. Mannick Research Award of the Department of Surgery at BWH and the Thoracic Surgery Foundation Resident Research Award Fellowship.

Maximilian is passionate about translation research with a particular interest in the role of innate immunity in cardiovascular disease. His clinical interests lie within adult cardiac surgery and thoracic transplantation.