Meet the EACTS faculty

Thomas Marti

Thomas Marti graduated from the department of microbiology at the University in Bern, Switzerland (1999). Studying DNA repair systems in…

Tilo Kölbel

Tilo Kölbel is professor of vascular surgery at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is board certified in Germany, Sweden…

Sebastian Ewen

Sebastian Ewen is an assistant physician in the Department of Internal Medicine III – Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine…

Luca Bertoglio

Luca Bertoglio graduated from medical school at University of Genova, Italy in 2003. He started his vascular surgery residency at…

Jens Neudecker

Jens Neudecker specialises in thoracic surgery at the Charite Universitatsmedizin, Berlin. Jens has been Spokesperson for the Surgical Study Network since 2012.…

Godehard Friedel

Godehard Friedel specialises in thoracic surgery at the Klinik Schillerhoehe, Gerlingen, Germany. Godehard’s areas of interest include multimodal treatment in advanced lung…

Simon Jordan

Simon Jordan was appointed consultant thoracic surgeon at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust, Department of Thoracic Surgery, in 2006…

Rudolf Hatz

Rudolf Hatz is a renowned specialist for thoracic surgery with a focus on the treatment of lung tumours and lung…

Marjolein Heuvelmans

Marjolein Heuvelmans finished her PhD thesis “Optimization of nodule management in low-dose CT lung cancer screening” at the end of 2015. Since then,…

Philipp Kiefer

Philipp Kiefer is a consultant for cardio-thoracic surgery at the Heart Center of Leipzig, Leipzig University. His training was predominantly…

Robert Allison

Rob graduated in 2000, training in surgery before entering a radiology training scheme in the north of England and completing…

Andrew Parry

Having completed a basic surgical training in 1990, Andrew Parry pursued a specialist training in cardiothoracic surgery. He was a registrar…

Christopher Bowles

Christopher Bowles is an artificial heart specialist based at Harefield Hospital with over three decades’ experience of mechanical circulatory support.  He…

Chris Munsch

Chris Munsch is Associate Medical Director for Cardiac Services at the University Hospital in Birmingham. Previously he was a consultant…