Daniel Zimpfer appointed Professor for Cardiac Surgery at MedUni Vienna

Daniel Zimpfer serves as the Chair of Cardiac Surgery (§98) at MedUni Vienna since the beginning of January 2024. He will also serve as Head of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna. His goals: "To make the Department of Cardiac Surgery an international leader in the cardiac surgical care of adults, children and adolescents with both acquired and hereditary heart disease through excellence in clinical practice, research and teaching." To achieve this goal, Daniel Zimpfer will strongly emphasize patient-centered and individualized cardiovascular portfolio medicine. Prof Zimpfer intends to strengthen the clinical specializations of heart failure surgery, aortic surgery, arrhythmia surgery and surgery for congenital heart defects, in addition to established cardiac surgery procedures, such as coronary bypass surgery and surgery for structural heart valve disease. At the same time, focus will be placed on the further development and expansion of minimally invasive and catheter-based therapies. The department's interdisciplinary collaboration within the Comprehensive Centre for Cardiovascular Medicine (CCVM) ensures individualized patient treatment at the highest level of university medicine in the context of cardiovascular portfolio medicine. In terms of translational research, new cardiac surgery therapy methods and cardiovascular implants are developed by the CD laboratories based at the Cardiac Surgery Department and the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory.