Ger Bennink

Ger Bennink, M.D., Professor University Medical Center of Cologne, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Department Kerpenerstrasse 62 Cologne 50937 Germany 49 221 478 32432 49 221 478 32433 (Fax)

Specialty

• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
• General Thoracic Surgery

Background

• Nijmegen Medical School (79-86)
• Internship Academical Hospital Maastricht (86-87)
• Nieuwegein Cardiothoracic Residency (87-93)
• Transplantation fellowship Houston, Texas, USA (89-90)
• PhD Utrecht, Circulatory assist prior to heart transplantation (1995)
• Staff Cardiothoracic surgeon University Medical Center Utrecht (1994-2003)
• Chief and Head of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery University Medical Center Cologne (since 2003)

Interests

• Circulatory assist devices and total art. heart
• cardiopulmonary transplantation
• antegrade cerebral perfusion
• long-term follow-up pediatric operations
• adolescent cardiac surgery
• neonatal heart surgery
• specialization in HLHS and Norwood operations
• pediatric lung/trachea operations and reconstructions