Professor Gerald Siegfried Werner

Professor Gerald Werner is Director of Cardiology and Intensive Care at the Klinikum Darmstadt a teaching hospital of the University of Frankfurt since 2005. Before that he was Deputy Director of the department and Head of the catheter laboratory at Friedrich-Schiller university of Jena. Prior to that he held positions at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen as consultant in internal medicine-cardiology and Head of the echo cardiology laboratory. His research focus on the coronary interventional therapy, including intravascular ultrasound, chronic total occlusions and collateral physiology, and the applications of lasers in interventional cardiology. He is a pioneer of coronary imaging by ultrasound, his earliest publications in this field date back to 1991, and he was among the first to describe the phenomenon of intramural coronary hematoma, and subintimal vessel pathways. He received the Franz-Groedel Award of the German Cardiac Society for his work on collateral physiology.