Johannes Maximilian Albes

Johannes Maximilian Albes (born March 21, 1960 in Vechta ) is a German heart surgeon , researcher and university professor .

Life

Albes studied human medicine from 1979 to 1985 at the Hannover Medical School and at Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts (surgical PJ tertial). From 1985 to 1987 Albes worked as a medical officer in the Air Force medical team in Delmenhorst. In 1987 he was with summa cum laude to the Dr. med. PhD. From 1987 he completed his clinical training as a specialist in surgery at the Hanover Medical School and the Salzburg State Hospitals (now Salzburg University Hospital ) , which he completed in 1993 with the specialist examination in this subject. In 1995 he acquired the field of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1995 Albes moved to Tübingen University Hospital as a senior physician . In 1998 he was appointed senior physician in charge. In 1998 he acquired the field of vascular surgery and in 1999 he became a specialist in cardiac surgery . In 1998 habilitated Albes in Tübingen in the field of cardiac surgery. In 1999 he moved to the Jena University Hospital as deputy director in the context of the replacement of thoracic and vascular surgery and the development of the newly founded cardiac surgery. In 2001 Albes completed his habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. At the beginning of 2003, he took over cardiac surgery at the Brandenburg Heart Center in Bernau near Berlin as chief physician . In 2004 Albes was appointed adjunct professor at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. From 2005 onwards, Albes studied health economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 2007. In 2015 he was appointed full professor and chair holder for cardiac surgery at the Brandenburg Medical School, founded in 2014 .

Albes is currently in charge of cardiac surgery at the Brandenburg Heart Center, Clinic of the Brandenburg Medical School. The clinical focus is on heart valve reconstruction , also minimally invasive, operative and endovascular therapy of the main artery as well as the surgical treatment of heart failure including cardiac support systems . Further training authorizations: cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, special cardiac surgical intensive care medicine.

Albes is a member of the faculty council, chairman of the examination committee and a member of the research committee and the doctoral committee of the Brandenburg Medical School.

Memberships

• Since 2014 medical member of the arbitration board for medical liability issues
• Since 2002 German Society for Cardiology - Cardiovascular Research
• Since 2002 Professional Association of German Surgeons (BDC)
• Since 2001 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
• Since 1995 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
• Since 1988 German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery

Academic activities

• Editorial Board:
  • Since 2015 European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Oxford University Press
  • Since 2007 The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, Thieme, Stuttgart, New York
• Since 2008 guest lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law

Research and Teaching

Basic research

The studies on the hemodynamics of heart valves and heart valve substitutes play an important role in the research activities, in more recent times especially with regard to the questions on the hemodynamic properties of catheter-supported implantable heart valves (TAVI), including the further development of a self-developed and patented non-biological heart valve, which can be implanted with the aid of a catheter. A current focus is on studies of the behavior of TAVI as a valve in valve in conventionally surgically implanted stented biological aortic valves or annuloplasty rings.

clinical research

A new method for minimally invasive, anatomical reconstruction of mitral valves on the beating heart is currently being researched, for which a patent has also been applied for.

Health Services Research and Medicine of Aging

Based on a bi-center study that was funded by DFG funds (Al-562 / 4-1) and in which the effects of psychological and pastoral support for patients who had to undergo heart surgery were analyzed, the working group " Frailty ”with questions about the recording and quantification of the degree of frailty and the detection of biomarkers, which can serve as predictors for assessing the individual surgical risk. To improve the vascular health in non-metropolitan regions, to which the predominantly rural Brandenburg belongs, a state-wide aortic register is currently being set up. Funds have been made available for both projects by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK). Albes is currently working on improving the data on endocarditis in Brandenburg.

Since 2016 Albes has been the scientific coordinator (spokesman) of the joint research project: "Cardiovascular health in non-metropolitan regions of Brandenburg", which is funded by the MWFK within the framework of the Brandenburg Health Campus with € 2.49 million from March 2017 for 2 years.

Publications

Albes has written 145 scientific publications since 1985 with a cumulative impact factor of 278.

• 118 of them are visible in PubMed
• 76 as first or senior author
• 18 review articles
• 16 book chapters
• 345 national and international lectures
• h-index : 30

Patents

• Mechanical aortic valve for endovascular implantation (inventor); German patent No. 10 2008 012 438
• Implants for minimally invasive reconstruction of the mitral valve (inventor); Application for German Patent No. 10 2017 002 974.1 and 10 2017 002 976.8

further activities

Albes is privately involved as a jazz musician in various formations, including the "Berlin Jazz Ensemble" under its own direction.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professorships at the Brandenburg Medical School
2. ^ Team of cardiac surgery at the Brandenburg Heart Center
3. ↑ Commissions and committees of the Brandenburg Medical School
4. ↑ European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Editorial Board
5. ^ The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, Editorial Board
6. ^ Ministry of Science, Research and Culture: Health Campus of the State of Brandenburg
7. ↑ Visible publications in PubMed
8. ^ German Patent and Trademark Office: International Patent Classification
9. ↑ Berlin Jazz Ensemble