Torsten Doenst

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Torsten Doenst (born February 28, 1969 in Göttingen ) is a German heart surgeon , researcher and university professor .

Live and act

Doenst studied human medicine from 1988 to 1995 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and at the University of Texas, Houston Medical School. Here he also completed a DFG research grant, which was followed by a position as a junior group leader as part of the Emmy Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Freiburg im Breisgau . He received his doctorate in 1996 in Göttingen. He completed his clinical training as a specialist in cardiac surgery (2003) and as a specialist in cardiac surgical intensive medicine (2005) at the University Medical Center Freiburg , where he also completed his habilitation in the field of cardiac surgery in 2004 . After a year abroad at the Toronto General Hospital , he became senior physician for cardiac surgery at the Freiburg University Medical Center in 2004 .

In 2006, Doenst moved to the Heart Center in Leipzig , where he was the first heart surgeon in Germany to receive a Heisenberg professorship . In 2010 Doenst became senior physician in charge in Leipzig and professor at the chair for cardiac and thoracic surgery at the Jena University Hospital. From 2009 to 2011 Doenst was the spokesman for the “Basic Science” working group of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery; In 2014 he was the conference president of the 6th Heart Focus Conference of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery (DGTHG) in Nuremberg .

Doenst has also been leading the Biomedical Education Program (BMEP), a funding program for life sciences students, since 2015 together with Michael Marschollek (Head of Medical Informatics at MHH ) and the Director of Trauma Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich . In addition, together with Christian Hagl ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ) and Artur Lichtenberg ( Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf ), he ran the DFG's first junior academy in cardiac surgery in 2018.

Doenst has been spokesman for the cardiac surgery professorships in Germany since 2015 and spokesman for the clinic directors at Jena University Hospital since 2018. In addition, he currently heads the commission of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery.

Doenst is married and has two children.

Scientific focus

Doenst's particular focus is on minimally invasive heart surgery and complex valve surgery , including endocarditis , as well as the surgical treatment of heart failure , including cardiac support systems and heart and lung transplants . The focus of his basic research is the investigation of dysregulations in the energy metabolism of the heart muscle in connection with a pumping weakness of the heart. He is also part of the management team of the STICH cardiac surgery study .

In clinical research, Doenst regularly prepares overviews of the cardiac surgery literature and publishes them in international and national journals (CRC, ZHTG) such as B. the publication of a review article on the mechanisms of the effect of aortocoronary bypass surgery ( CABG ) compared to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) .

Expert activities

Doenst works as a reviewer for numerous societies and scientific journals, including Circulation , Basic Research of Cardiology, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery , the German Research Foundation , The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, Cardiovascular Research , European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS), The Journal of the Royal Society Interface, European Heart Journal , Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology , Journal of Physiology, Heart Failure Reviews, Cardiology, Diabetes , Heart and PLOS ONE .

Memberships (selection)

Awards and prizes (selection)

Publications

Doenst wrote over 220 writings, including 3 books and 8 book chapters, original papers, articles and medical case reports .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Doenst | CTSNet. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ BetterDoc GmbH: Prof. Dr. med. Torsten Doenst (doctor, cardiac surgery) in 07747 Jena - BetterDoc. Retrieved June 25, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Torsten Doenst | CTSNet. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cardiac surgeon and basic researcher uniklinikum-jena.de
personal data
SURNAME Doenst, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heart surgeon, researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen