Editor Profile
Prof. Dr. med. Eric Schulze-Bahr, Ph.D.
Director of the IfGH
Present
University Hospital Münster (UKM)
Münster
Germany
Prof. Dr. med. Eric Schulze-Bahr is director of the Institute for Genetics of Heart Diseases (IfGH) at the University Hospital Münster.
Prof. Dr. med. Eric Schulze-Bahr studied medicine at the Georg August University of Göttingen, the Medical Faculty of the Charité at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA. He completed his habilitation under Prof. Dr. Günter Breithardt, former chairman of the Congenital Heart Defects Competence Network, at the University Hospital of Münster on the subject of "Molecular Genetics of Hereditary Cardiac Arrhythmias". The internist, who specializes in human genetics, heads the cardiac genetics department and the special outpatient clinic for patients with genetic heart diseases at the Institute for the Genetics of Heart Diseases, which specializes in familial forms of cardiac arrhythmias, heart muscle diseases and heart defects as well as genetic factors that can lead to sudden cardiac death. Eric Schulze Bahr is co-editor and reviewer of various cardiovascular journals and a member of the National Action Alliance for People with Rare Diseases (NAMSE).
- Human Genetics
- Genetic Heart Diseases
- Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Heart Muscle Diseases
- Heart Defects as well as Genetic Factors
- Cardiology
