Nicolaus Reifart

Nicolaus Reifart

Johann Nicolaus Reifart (born December 19, 1949 in Trier ) is an interventional cardiologist and interventional angiologist, chief physician of the cardiology department at Petrus Hospital Wuppertal and an adjunct professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Reifart grew up as the second of six children in Ingelheim am Rhein and attended the Sebastian-Münster-Gymnasium there . After 18 months of military service in Göttingen, he studied human medicine in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. In 1976, Wolfgang Stille did his doctorate on the bactericidal action of antibiotics in urine. This was followed by two years of assistant doctor activity in internal medicine in Rüsselsheim (chief physician Albrecht Moll) and completion of training as an internist and cardiologist from 1979 to 1985 at the Frankfurt University Clinic (head of the cardiology department Martin Kaltenbach ). 1982 followed a six-month research stay at Harvard University in Boston (under S. Khuri and Eugene Braunwald). In 1984 Reifart was appointed a specialist in internal medicine , in 1985 he received the additional title of cardiology and qualified as a professor on the subject of echocardiography in ischemic heart disease.

In 1985, Reifart was co-founder and chief physician of the cardiology department in the Red Cross Hospital in Frankfurt, and in 1994 also in the newly built Heart Center in Frankfurt (135 beds). From 1990 to 1997, most coronary angioplasties (widening of the coronary arteries) worldwide were performed here (1996: 6400). Since 1993, Reifart has held an adjunct professorship at the University of Frankfurt am Main. In 1998, Reifart moved to the clinics of the Main-Taunus district as head of the cardiological institute and from 2004 to 2016 also head of the Medical Clinic I (cardiology).

Web links

• The curriculum vitae and publications of Nicolaus Reifart on his practice's website