Thierry Carrel

Thierry Carrel, M.D., Professor Hopital Universitaire de Berne Service de Chirurgie Cardio-Vasculaire Berne 3010 Switzerland 41 31 632 2375 41 31 632 4443 (Fax)

Specialty

• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Background

• Collège St.Michel Fribourg (1978)
• Medical School Freiburg and Berne, CH (MD 1984)
• General Surgery Residency Basle and Berne CH (1984-1988)
• Cardiovascular Surgery Zürich, CH (1989-1994)
• PhD Thesis 1993 (University Zürich, CH)
• Fellowship Paris-F and Hannover-D 1994
• Swiss Board of General Surgery 1990
• Swiss Board of Cardiovascular Surgery 1993
• Professor of Surgery 1997

Interests

• Transit-time flow measurement during CABG
• Chemokines receptors in human hearts
• Transmyocardial laser revascularization (experimental)
• Surgery of the thoracic aorta
• Elephant trunk technique
• Distal exsanguination in descending aortic surgery
• Non invasive monitoring of graft rejection
• Complex congenital heart surgery
• Minimal invasive surgery