Leading Hospital // University Hospital Zurich // Members
Prof Dr. Dr. Christian Templin qualified from the Medical School of Hannover, Germany. He started his career as a clinical and research Fellow at the Medical School of Hannover, Germany and Boston, USA. He achieved the board certification in Emergency Medicine (2008), Internal Medicine (2009) and Cardiology (2010). In 2009 he awarded a Fellowship for the Special Program University Medicine (SPUM) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Since 2011 he works as a consultant cardiologist in interventional cardiology and acute cardiac care at the University Heart Center, University Hospital Zurich. In the same year he received the prestigious Scientific Prize of the Swiss Society of Cardiology for original research work in cardiovascular disease. In 2013 he was awarded the Siegenthaler Prize for his extraordinary work on stem cells and cardiovascular disease. In the same year he also earned the prize "women and heart disease" from the Herzstiftung Olten. PD Dr. Dr. Templin is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC). His clinical and research interests are in interventional cardiology and acute cardiac care as well as in regenerative medicine.
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Templin, PhD
Principal Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 95 85
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
PD Dr. Jelena Ghadri graduated from the Medical School of Hannover, Germany and Medical School of Aberdeen, United Kingdom in 2006. In 2006-2007 she started her research and clinical fellowship at the Medical School of Hannover at the Department of Internal Medicine, Division Nephrology and Hypertension. In 2008 she joined a clinical fellowship at the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Zurich. From 2010-2011 she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Cardiac Imaging at the University Hospital of Zurich. In 2011 Dr. Ghadri participated in a short-term fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA under the supervision of Prof. Abhiram Prasad who is an expert in the field of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Since 2012 Dr. Ghadri is working in the Department of Cardiology as a resident and research fellow. Her main research interests are non-invasive cardiac imaging, gender medicine and the pathogenesis of takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
PD Dr. med. Jelena R. Ghadri
Study-Coordinator, Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Davide Di Vece, MD
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Ken Kato, MD, PhD
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Victoria Lucia Cammann is a medical student from the Philipps University Marburg, Germany. She is working on a doctoral thesis on a Takotsubo cardiomyopathy sub-project at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital Zurich.
Victoria Lucia Cammann
Co-Investigator
Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Stjepan Jurisic is a medical student from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany. He is working on a doctoral thesis on a Takotsubo cardiomyopathy sub-project at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital Zurich.
Stjepan Jurisic
Co-Investigator
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany
Konrad Szawan
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Jozef Micek
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Beatrice Bacci, MD
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Alessandro Candreva, MD
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Moritz Schwyzer studied at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich and he is currently writing his doctoral thesis about the Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy at the Cardiovascular Center of the University Hospital Zurich.
Moritz Schwyzer, MD
Doctoral Student, IT- and Data-Manager
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 11 11
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01
Julia Hermes-Laufer, MD
Co-Investigator
Cardiovascular Center
University Hospital Zurich
Telephone: +41 (0)44 255 62 02
Fax: +41 (0)44 255 44 01