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Private lecturer Dr. med. Benjamin Schäffer

Senior Physician, Electrophysiology, Albertinen Cardiovascular Center

[Translate to English:] Porträt Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Benjamin Schäffer, Leitender Arzt Department für Elektrophysiologie - Albertinen International Hospital Hamburg
Teamwork and a respectful atmosphere are essential for me. I believe that good medicine works best when there is interdisciplinary and cross-professional collaboration. This works particularly well when we have a good working atmosphere and patients are also aware of this. This also includes respectful interaction at all levels in hospital operations.

Dr. Benjamin Schäffer

Vita

Dr. Benjamin Schaeffer has been Head of the Electrophysiology Department at the Albertinen Hospital and Evangelisches Amalie Sieveking Krankhaus since June 2022. Before that, he worked as a Senior Physician in Cardiology at Asklepios Klinic St. Georg. Dr. Schaeffer completed his specialist training at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, where he also completed his doctorate and later my habilitation. A research grant enabled Dr. Schaeffer to spend a year abroad at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. The focus of his work is the interventional treatment of arrhythmias using catheter ablation.

1983 born in Essen, married, two children
2020 - 2023   Habilitation on the topic "Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation and complex atrial tachycardias – optimization of mapping and ablation in interventional treatment".  In the subject of internal medicine with a focus on cardiology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg
2019 - 2020 Training as a Resident Physician, University Heart Center Hamburg, Clinic for Cardiology, specialist in internal medicine and cardiology 2020
2017 - 2018 Research fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA 
2011 - 2016 Training as a Resident Physician, University Heart Center Hamburg, Clinic for Cardiology 
2009 - 2014 Doctoral dissertation on the topic: About the formation of a functional syncytium in engineered heart tissue (EHT), University of Hamburg
2004 - 2011 Studies in human medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Professional background

since 2022 Head of Electrophysiology at Albertinen Hospital and the Evangelisches Amalie Sieveking Krankhaus locations
2021 - 2022 Senior Physician, Clinic for Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg
2019 - 2020 Training as a Resident Physician, Clinic for Cardiology, specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg
2011 - 2017 Training as a Resident Physician, Clinic for Cardiology, specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg

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