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Professor Christian Hamm

Medical Clinic I, Giessen (Germany)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Professor Christian Hamm received his medical training at the Universities of Mainz and Hamburg before undertaking research fellowships at the Ischaemic Heart Research Unit, University of Cape Town and in the Department of Cardiology at the University of Hamburg. He accepted the position of Associate Professor in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University Hospital in Hamburg in 1989, before becoming Medical Director and Chief of Cardiology at the Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany, in 1999. Since 2013 he is also full Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Medical Clinic I at the University of Giessen, Germany. His major research interests include acute coronary syndrome, cardiac biomarkers, cardiac MRI and CT, and interventional cardiology. He has been the principle investigator for many national and international multicenter clinical trials and is member of several ESC guideline committees. He serves in the Editorial Boards of many renowned journals.

Personalised management of patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease: unresolved issues

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Treatment

Session type: Symposium

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Rule in/out of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency setting

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Biomarkers

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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HOT LINE SESSION 8

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: European Society of Cardiology

Session type: Hot Line

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Great Debate: is revascularisation primarily intended for chronic coronary syndrome patients with symptoms refractory to medical therapy?

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Coronary Artery Disease (Chronic) / Chronic Coronary Syndromes (CCS)

Session type: Great Debates

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Challenging clinical cases: AF-PCI – do recent studies simplify clinical practice?

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Treatment

Session type: Practical Tutorials

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Myocardial injury versus myocardial infarction - Implications for clinical practice

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Clinical

Session type: Case-Based Session

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Meet the trialist - High-STEACS - High-Sensitivity Troponin in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Biomarkers

Session type: Late-Breaking Science

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Coronary artery angioplasty: lessons learned from the past 40 years and a look into the future

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: Invasive and functional coronary imaging

Session type: Symposium

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2015 NSTE - Acute coronary syndromes Guidelines in daily practice

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Physiology, haemodynamics and microcirculation

Session type: Guidelines in Practice

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Acute myocardial infarction with no obstructive coronary atherosclerosis

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Infarction acute phase non STEMI

Session type: Symposium

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