Dr Ulf Berger, MD

Specialisation – thoracic surgery Date and place of birth: 09.04.1968, Bonn. School education: 08.1974 – 01.1978 Basic school of Oberpläis district 01.1978 – 01.1980 Basic school of Berlin. 02.1980 – 06.1988 Gymnasium in Paderborn. Civilian service: 10.1988 – 05.1990 Robert Janker Clinic in Bonn; specialised clinic for oncological diseases Higher education: 04.1990 – 05.1996 Training in medical science at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, Rheinische Universität Bonn. 03.1992 Preliminary medical examination 03.1993 First state examination 03.1995 Second state examination 05.1996 Third state examination Doctoral thesis defence: 01.1997 ‘Effects of Enflurane-based anaesthesia with and without laughing gas on the formation and transmission of cardiac excitation’. Experimental Surgery, University Hospital Bonn. Supervisor: Prof. Dr N. Hahn Career as a surgeon: 06.1996 – 11.1997 Intern Physician at the Clinic for General and Abdominal Surgery at the University of Mainz, Director: Prof. Dr T. Junginger 12.1997 – 11.1999 assistant physician at the Clinic for General and Abdominal Surgery at the University of Mainz, Director: Prof. Dr T. Junginger 02.2000 г. – 12.2002 as an assistant physician at the Surgical Department of the German Red Cross Hospital Neuwied. Chief Physician: Prof. Dr T. Riemenschneider 04.2002 Surgical surgeon at the Surgical Department of the German Red Cross Hospital Neuwied. Chief physician: Prof. Dr T. Riemenschneider 01.2003 г. – 06.2006 Assistant Physician at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Pulmonary Clinic of the Cologne Clinic Group. Director: Prof. Dr. D. Zeidler (until 04.2004) Acting Director: Dr. E. Wsatek (until 12.2004) Director: Privat-Docent Dr. E. Stölben (since 04.2005) 04.2006 г. Thoracic surgeon at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Pulmonary Clinic of the Cologne Clinic Group. Director: Prof. Dr. D. Zeidler (until 04.2004) Acting Director: Dr. E. Wsatek (until 12.2004) Director: Privat-Docent Dr. E. Stölben (since 04.2005). 07.2006 г. – 03.2010 – Senior Doctor of the Department of Visceral and Thoracic Surgery of St. Remigius Hospital in the district of Opladen, Thoracic surgery at St. Remigius Hospital in the Opladen district. Chief Physician: Dr D. R. Wassenberg 04.2010 г. – 08.2010 Head of Department at the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Petrus Hospital Wuppertal. Chief physician: Dr E. Vzatek 09.2010 г. – 04.2011 г. Acting Chief Physician at the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Petrus Hospital Wuppertal 05.2011. Chief Physician at the Thoracic Surgery Clinic of the Petrus Hospital Wuppertal since 10.2019 Co-operation City Clinic in Solingen Membership of medical organisations: German Society for Surgery (DGCH) Association of German Surgeons (BDC) German Society for Thoracic Surgery (DGT)