Andreas Schäfer

• 1993 – 2000 study of medicine at Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

• 7/2000 – 4/2002 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. med. G. Ertl)

• 2001 Doctorial thesis “magna cum laude” at Prof. Dr. med. Rudi Busse’s lab, Director cardiovascular physiology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main “Isometric contraction induces the Ca2+-independent activation of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase “

• 2002 –2003 Research Fellow at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Prof. Dr. K. Channon)

• 2003 - 2010 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. G. Ertl)

• 2004 Certification “Advanced Trauma Life Support” by ATLS at Trauma Unit, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg General Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa (Prof. K.D. Boffard, FRCS, FACS)

• 2007 Certification for “Emergency Medicine” by Bayerische Landesärztekammer, Munich

• 2007 Specialization for “Internal Medicine” by Bayerische Landesärztekammer, Munich

• 2008 Postdoctoral lecture qualification in “Internal Medicine” at the University of Würzburg

• 2008 Sub-specialization for “Cardiology” by Bayerische Landesärztekammer, Munich

• 2010 Consultant in Interventional Cardiology at Hannover Medical School (Prof. Dr. J. Bauersachs)

• 2011 Sub-specialization for „Internal Intensive Care Medicine“ by Ärztekammer Niedersachsen

• 2012 Deputy Director of Cardiology and Head of Cardiology Intensive Care Medicine at Hannover Medical School (Prof. Dr. J. Bauersachs)

• 2013 Professor for Internal Medicine – Cardiology at Hannover Medical School

• 2014 certified “Interventional Cardiologist” by the German Cardiac Society