Standing on your shoulders: Friedhelm Beyersdorf
A Cut Above: Cardiothoracic insights from EACTS - Un podcast de European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (EACTS) - Les lundis
In this episode, our hosts Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü and Miia L Lehtinen, chat to Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Beyersdorf, eminent cardiothoracic surgeon and past-President of the EACTS (2021 – 2022), about his career - how he got to where is today, the challenges he faced along the way, and his thoughts on the future of cardiothoracic surgery. Guest Speaker: Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Beyersdorf was born in Bochum, Germany and is a graduate from the Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/M. with clinical clerkship at Johns-Hopkins in Baltimore and Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. His residency was at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt and University of California Los Angeles. From 1994 - 2022 he was Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery in Freiburg, Germany.
