Jens Kaden

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Jens Johannes Kaden (* 1970 ) is a German doctor ( internal medicine , cardiology ) and university lecturer .

Live and act

Kaden studied human medicine from 1991 to 1997 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Tulane University in New Orleans, USA. He completed his specialist training as an internist as well as cardiology at the University Hospital Mannheim . Until 2008 he worked there as a senior physician, most recently in the cardiac catheter laboratory and as head of the cardiological outpatient department. He has been working in Mannheim as an internist and cardiologist since 2009.

Scientific career

Kaden received his doctorate in 1997 with a thesis on heart failure and completed his habilitation in 2005 on the subject of heart valve diseases, both at the Medical Faculty Mannheim . From 2007 to 2009 he was deputy spokesman, from 2009 to 2012 spokesman for the “Aortic Diseases” working group of the German Society for Cardiology . As a nucleus member of the Working Group “Valvular Heart Disease” of the European Society of Cardiology , he was co-author of a position paper on preoperative risk stratification in patients with heart valve disease. He is the author of 95 scientific publications that have been cited over 2000 times. With his research work, he contributed significantly to the modern understanding of calcifying aortic valve stenosis as an inflammatory, potentially modifiable disease. In 2008 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

University didactic activity

Kaden has been intensively involved in university medical didactics since 2003. He completed the Baden-Württemberg certificate for university didactics, founded the Mannheim personal simulation program and has been the medical director of the learning hospital TheSiMa, the skills lab of the Mannheim Medical Faculty , since 2008 . In this role, his focus is on imparting practical and communicative skills in medical studies, in particular with the transfer of didactic methods from pilot projects into curricular teaching. Another focus is on the need for further qualification of teachers for complex forms of examination.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive AG26 aortic diseases. In: dgk.org. German Society for Cardiology - Heart and Circulatory Research eV, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Raphael Rosenhek, Bernard Iung, Pilar Tornos, Manuel J Antunes, Bernard D Prendergast, Catherine M Otto, Arie Pieter Kappetein, Janina Stepinska, Jens J Kaden, Christoph K Naber, Esmeray Acartürk, Christa Gohlke-Bärwolf: ESC Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease Position Paper: assessing the risk of interventions in patients with valvular heart disease . In: Eur Heart J. Band 33 , no. 7 , April 2012, p. 822-8, 828a, 828b , doi : 10.1093 / eurheartj / ehr061 , PMID 21406443 ( nih.gov [accessed August 18, 2020]).
  3. ^ Web of Science. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Lisa Liebke, Renate Strohmer, Heike Lauber, Andrea Winzer, Veronika Strittmatter-Haubold, Jens J. Kaden: Further training for university lecturers in medical teaching . A blended learning based format. In: Journal of University and Continuing Education (ZHWB) . No. 2019/1 , July 16, 2019, doi : 10.4119 / zhwb-262 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaden, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaden, Jens Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician (internal medicine, cardiology) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970