Jochen Börgemann

Professor, MD, PhD
Chief Physician and Head of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic

Niederrhein Hospital Association

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Specialization:

Creation of elastic heart valves from polyurethane with a special design for the mitral and aortic valves
Pilot study on large animals (University Hospitals Aachen and Munich, Helmholtz Institute Aachen)

Medical activities

Clinical prospective studies (observation of patients after reconstructive surgeries for congenital heart defects (Switch surgery)
Co-initiator and coordinator of the multicenter GOCABE (German Off-pump-coronary-artery-bypass in the elderly) study for a prospective randomized comparison of OBCAP (Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass) coronary surgery with conventional bypass surgery in patients aged 75 years (University Hospital Münster)

Main directions of scientific activity

Creation of living heart valves using tissue engineering technology by growing heart valve tissue from the patient's own cells by cell culture and their subsequent population on a matrix, which is a three-dimensional valve structure obtained from synthetic polymers with biodegradation properties, and implantation of grown heart valves into hearts sheep
Endothelialization of biological prostheses and in vivo testing in large animals (University Hospital Munich)
Growing heart valve tissue from umbilical cord blood cells by culturing (growing) cells and applying the cell culture to a biodegradable (resorbable) frame, which is a three-dimensional valve structure (University Hospital Munich)

Membership in industry communities and associations

Member of the Board of the German Cardiovascular Society and thoracic surgery (DGHTG)
Chairman of the Working Group "Congenital heart defects and pediatric cardiac surgery" of the German Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery - DGHTG
Chairman of the Working Group "Pediatric Heart and Lung Transplantation"
German Society of Pediatric Cardiology (DGPK)
Member of the Board of the National Register of Congenital Heart Defects of the competent network of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany
Member of the Working Group "Treatment of Terminal Cardiopulmonary Failure" DGHTG
Member of the Working Group "New Technologies" DGTHG Member of the Committee on Professional Retraining of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (EACTS)
Full member and teacher of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Bergamo (Italy)
Member of the Aristotle Quality Assurance Working Group
Member of the Project Working Group on National Quality in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Pediatric Cardiology Member of the German Surgical Society
Member of the American Heart Association
Member of the German Society of Cardiac Surgery
Member of the German Geriatrics Society
Professor at the Universities of Munich and Münster
Author of more than 350 scientific publications
Participant of numerous national and international congresses
Since 2000, he has been included in the list of the best cardiac surgeons in Germany according to the results of the annual survey of the public and journalistic magazine "FOCUS"