John Hess

BIOGRAPHY

CURRENT POSITION:
Since 1997 Professor of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects at the Technical University of Munich, Director of the German Heart Center Munich, Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects

EDUCATION/TRAINING/PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
• 1972 Approval (Government University of Groningen)
• 1972 American State US Embassy, The Hague
• 1973-1974 Education Pediatrics, St Elisabeth Hospital, Willemstad, Curacao, NA
• 1974-1977 Education Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital of Groningen
• 1977-1979 Specialization in Pediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital of Groningen (Professor KK Bossina)
• 1979-1987 Physician Pediatric Cardiology, University Children's Hospital of Groningen
• 1981 Research Associate Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
• 1982 Habilitation, University of Groningen
• 1987-1997 Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Director of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology at the Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Rotterdam

MEMBERSHIPS:
• Dutch Society for Pediatrics
• Member of the Board Dutch Society of Cardiology
• Dutch Society for Thoracic Surgery
• Scientific board member of the German Heart Foundation
• German Society for Pediatric Cardiology
• German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Cardiovascular Research
• German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
• Association of Senior Hospital Doctors
• Member of the European Society of Cardiology
• Member of the Scientific Board European Society of Cardiology
• Member of the Working Group for Endocarditis European Society of Cardiology
• Association of European Pediatric Cardiologists
• Member of the Board Registry Valvuloplasty and angioplasty of congenital anomalies, Boston Scientific
• NWO, member of the Working Group 'Biomechanical Technologies'
• NWO, member of the Working Group 'Heart Function'
• Board member of the Committee for endocarditis of the Netherlands Heart Foundation
• Board Member Working Group on Pediatric Heart Transplant, the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC)
• Working Group on adults with congenital heart defects of the ESC
• Bioethical committee of the University Hospital Rotterdam and the Medical Faculty of the Erasmus University
• 'Heart', Scientific Advisory Board
• 'Cardiology', Scientific Advisory Board
• 'Pediatric Research', Scientific Advisory Board
• 'Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde', Scientific Advisory Board
• 'Thoracic Center Journal', Scientific Advisory Board
• Dutch Society of Pediatric Science Council Chairman
• Member Holländischer Health Council member
• Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Heart Foundation for Congenital Heart Defects
• Dutch Heart Foundation, Netherlands Heart Foundation Board Member, Executive Board
• 'Cardiology in the Young', Scientific Advisory Board
• Medical Faculty, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Board Member of the Erasmus University Medical School
• Lead investigator of the project Cardioseal (R), FDA protocol, chief investigator of the project Cardioseal (R), FDA protocol

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