Meet the EACTS faculty

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…

Charles Deakin

Professor Charles Deakin is a Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia and Cardiac Intensive Care at University Hospital Southampton where he was…

Anna Witkowska

Anna Witkowska graduated from Medical University of Warsaw in 2009. She completed her residency in cardiac surgery at the Department…

Sian Harding

Professor Sian Harding is Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at NHLI, Imperial College London; Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences…

Vi-Hue Tran

My name is Vi-Hue Tran and I am a Research Assistant based at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science in UCL,…

Arjen Stam

Arjen Stam (MD, MSc) is currently a senior resident in Clinical Microbiology from the University Medical Center Utrecht in the…

Joerg Seeburger

Joerg Seeburger graduated from medical school at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany in 2005. He started his cardiac…

Carlo Banfi

Carlo Banfi, MD, PhD is a cardiac surgeon, senior physician and responsible of the Mechanical Heart Support Program at the…

Tom Treasure

Tom Treasure was a general Cardiothoracic Surgeon in London from 1982 to 2001 and then returned to his alma mater,…

Pala Rajesh

Pala Rajesh qualified from Madras Medical college in 1974 and then trained in the U.K in general surgery and obtained…