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Prof. Heiss is clinical academic with at the University of Surrey and the Surrey and Sussex NHS Healthcare Trust as a Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, head of department, section lead and interventional consultant. His research interests include basic mechanisms of vascular homeostasis and human interventions for improvement of cardiovascular health and healthy aging. His clinical work focuses on the prevention and endovascular treatment of complex multi-level atherosclerosis. Previously, Christian headed the Vascular Medicine program, Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Düsseldorf University. He trained in basic cardiovascular research, interventional cardiology and vascular medicine. After medical school and dissertation at Düsseldorf University, he was a post-doctoral Biochemistry & Molecular Biology fellow, AHA research fellow (University of California San Francisco), and affiliated nutrition faculty (University of California Davis).
