Ruoyu Zhang, MD, FACS, Assoc. Professor of Thoracic Surgery

2022 – presentHead of Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery,Klinikum Herford, University Hospital of Ruhr University Bochum2018 – 2021Senior thoracic surgeon, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany.2020Appointment as Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany.2015 – 2018Senior thoracic surgeon, Chest Hospital Schillerhoehe, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany.2014Fellow in the Thoracic Surgery Service, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Science, Chicago, USA2011 – 2013Thoracic surgeon in the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany2011German Board Certification in Thoracic Surgery2003 – 2011Cardiothoracic surgery residency in the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (including 2-year residency in the heart and lung transplantation and LVAD program)2004Doctor degree in the Hannover Medical School, Germany1996 – 2003Medical study, German medical exams and license at the Hannover Medical School, Germany1992 – 1996Medical college at the Tongji Medical School, Wuhan, China