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

2022 – present

Head of Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery,

Klinikum Herford, University Hospital of Ruhr University Bochum

2018 - 2021

Senior thoracic surgeon, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany.

2020
Appointment as Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany.

2015 – 2018
Senior thoracic surgeon, Chest Hospital Schillerhoehe, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany.

2014
Fellow in the Thoracic Surgery Service, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Science, Chicago, USA

2011 – 2013
Thoracic surgeon in the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

2011
German Board Certification in Thoracic Surgery

2003 – 2011
Cardiothoracic 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)

2004
Doctor degree in the Hannover Medical School, Germany

1996 – 2003
Medical study, German medical exams and license at the Hannover Medical School, Germany

1992 – 1996
Medical college at the Tongji Medical School, Wuhan, China