Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben

Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben

University Medical Center Mainz, Heart Valve Center

Germany

Professional career
2022 W2 Professorship “Interventional Heart Valve Therapies”
from 2018 Head of Heart Valve Center Mainz, Interventions and CV Imaging in Valvular and Structural Heart Disease, University Medical Center Mainz
2010Heart valve therapy of the mitral and tricuspid valve
2004 Head of the cardiovascular imaging, echocardiography, University Medical Center Mainz
1992-1995 DAAD exchange student at the UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) and University of Portland, Oregon with training in paediatric cardiology and pathology
USMLE-I and II degree medicine for USA and Canada, in USA and Frankfurt 
  
Scientific backround
2021 (Co)EiC of Journal Echocardiography,. A Journal of cardiovascular imaging and intervention (from volume 38:1 2021)
 Academic Research Consortium (ARC) and FDA MVARC-II Writing Group New York 2021-2024
 ESC HFA Research Group Imaging from 2020
from 2010 Interventional heart valve therapy and multimedia imaging
from 2007 3D cardiac imaging
from 2000 Myokardiale Perfusion and CEUS (contrast enhanced ultrasound)
  
from 1998 EMAH interventions and structural heart disease
  
1998 Thesis Pharmacology
Muscarinic autoregulation left atrial appendage and trachea
3D Cardiac Imaging incl. Image Fusion.“
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Germany, Prof. Dr. med. H Kilbinger,
degree: magna cum laude
  
Training & qualification 
2021 Co-author of the first European position paper of all four working groups of the ESC on heart failure with secondary mitral regurgitation. European Heart J 2021 (accepted)
2020 Elected (co) Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley and Sons Group international cardiology journal Echocardiography. A journal of cardiovascular imaging and intervention. Pubmed and IF listed in 38th year of existence oldest multimodality journal for cardiac imaging
2020 Qualification heart failure of the DGK
2020 elected ESC HFA Heart Failure Association Study Group Imaging
First author of the ESC on valvular heart failure
2020 Elected member of the MVARC-II Writing Committee of the Academic Research Consortiums of the US Cardiovascular Research Foundation New York and together with the American Food and Drug Agency (FDA) to define scientific endpoints of all international mitral valve studies
2018 Head of Heart Valve Center, Certification of the department for TAVI and mitral valves (2019 and 2020), ESC Ambassador, ESC Congress program committee for Heart valves, pulmonary hypertension, congenital heart defects and myocardial disorders, Board member, Heart Valve Council, ESC Heart Failure Association, certification committee of the DGK for mitral and tricuspid valves
2010-2018 Training and coronary interventions, 10 months senior physician of the cardiac cath lab, heart attack call service as assistant, then senior physician.
Head of cardiac valves (AV valves), EACVI representative ESC for Germany (echocardiography), DGK AG05 Cardiovascular Ultrasound speaker elect then speaker 2016 each 2 years)
2010Qualification EMAH (Adults with congenital heart defect)
MHH Hannover DGK DGPK DTHG
2004-2010 Head of the echocardiography laboratory, ischaemia diagnostics, cardiac perfusion, valve diagnostics
2004 Specialist in cardiology
2002-2004 Interventional Cardiology in the cardiac cath lab and interventional therapy for congenital heart defects (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Münzel, Univ.-Prof. Dr. C. Kampmann)
2002 Member of DGK AGIK (working group interventional cardiology, now Nukleus Herzklappen)
2002 Faculty for Cardiovascular Research Foundation New York, Europa Group Intervention Congresses Paris and London
2002 Specialist for Internal Medicine
2002-2004 Echocardiography and Cardiology (Univ. Prof. Dr. S. Mohr-Kahaly)
2000-2001 Ward training Rhythmology and Private ward
1998Training in Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Poison Information Centre for Rhineland-Palatinate and Hessen (Univ.-Prof. Dr. S. Weilemann)
  
Stipendia/honors
01/1995 – 06/2020 Zondek Award Doctoral thesis of the Charité Berlin
Young investigator award finalist of the ESC
Heart Valve Award of the ESC Annual Congress to the German TRAMI Registry
Science Award of the Mainzer Herzstiftung 2019