Personal statement / motivation
"We have only this one life".
Minimally invasive and fully endoscopic mitral and tricuspid valve reconstruction
Reconstructive surgery of the aortic valve
All-arterial coronary surgery with endoscopic harvesting of the arm arteries
Aortic surgery (root replacement, root reconstruction, aortic arch surgery)
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery procedures
Surgical treatment of heart rhythm disorders, ablations
Pacemaker and ICD Implantation
Surgical treatment of heart failure, devices, destination therapy
Complex procedures, re-operations, endocarditis, combined procedures
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG)
Swiss Society of Cardiac Surgery (SSCC)
Zurich Society of Cardiology (ZGK)
CTSNet
Skiclub Arlberg, St. Anton a.A. (SCA)
Casino Tennis Club Basel (CTC)
Amis de la Fondation Beyeler
German, English, Spanish
2023 - today
Member of the Executive Board
2019 – today
2019 - until now
HerzZentrum Hirslanden Zürich Practice opening 01.10.2019
2017
Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Basel
2013 – 2016
Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen / Nuremberg
2013 - 2019
Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Basel
2011
Habilitation for cardiac surgery "Physiology and pharmacology of arterial Bypassgrafts
2006 – 2010
Various scholarships in Herzsurgery Bern / Greenville, NC, USA / Barcelona, Spain / San Francisco, CA, USA
2007 - 2012
Chief of Cardiac Surgery
1996 – 2004
Assisted in obtaining the title of "Specialist in Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery".
1994 – 1999
D. thesis: Nuclear Medicine, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn
"Effects of diagnostic application of monoclonal antibodies on survival of melanoma patients".
1992 – 1993
Erasmus scholarship at the University of Valencia, Spain
1988 – 1996
Studies in human medicine
Ruhr University in Bochum and Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Bonn
University missions
Member of the faculty assembly of the University of Basel, awarding of master theses, theses, supervision of sub-assistants
Member of the editorial board
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Medicina, Journal of Thoracic Disease
Reviewer
Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Interactive Chirurgie cardiovasculaire et thoracique, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, Frontiers in CV-Medicine, PlosOne
Transkatheter-Klappentherapien
TAVI (transfemoraler und alternativer Zugang)
Transkatheter-Mitralklappenreparatur (Edge-to-Edge, Anuloplastie, andere Ansätze)
Transkatheter-Mitralklappenersatz (Transapikal und Transeptal)
Transkatheter-Eingriff an der Trikuspidalklappe (Reparatur und Ersatz),
Verschluss paravalvulärer Lecks.
Nicht-valvuläre strukturelle Eingriffe
PFO-Verschluss, ASD-Verschluss, VSD-Verschluss
Klappenchirurgie
Reparatur und Ersatz von Mitral-, Aorten-, Trikuspidal- und Pumonarklappen
Experte für interventionelle und multimodale Bildgebung
Präklinische Entwicklung von Klappentherapien
Simulationen und Training
Name
Vicky Burguillos
Function
Physician assistent / CSurgical-technical assistant
Ab 2022 Study nurse
E-Mail
praxisgrapow@herzzentrum.ch
Experience / Education
since 2022
CAS Clinical research coordinator
Bern University of Applied Sciences
since 2017
Physician assistant / Surgical-technical assistant at the HerzZentrum
Endoscopical Vena Harvesting (EVH), Endoscopical Radialis Havesting, Vein and Radialis Retrieval (Open Surgery) for Bypass Surgery
Assist in all cardiac surgeries
2016
Specialization Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery VU Amstelacademie University of Amsterdam
2012 – 2015
Bachelor of health Surgical Technology
University of Amsterdam (AMC)
2003 – 2007
Bachelor of health nutrition and dietetics
University of Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN)
Personal statement / motivation
There is nothing more beautiful than a beating heart
Languages: German,
English, Dutch
Name
Monika Fässler
Funktion
Medizinische PraxisASSISTANTE
E-Mail
grapow@herzzentrum.ch
