Prof. Dr. Uwe Zeymer
Stellv. Direktor, Institut für Herzinfarktforschung, Klinikum Ludwigshafen
Doctor Uwe Zeymer is Head of Interventional Cardiology at the Heart Center Ludwigshafen, Department of Cardiology, Germany. He is Vice-Director of the Institut für Herzinfarktforschung Ludwigshafen. He has been board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, interventional cardiology and intensive care medicine.
After his graduation from Medical School at the Universities of Munich and Marburg in 1985, Dr Zeymer gained experience as a resident, fellow and attendee in the Department of Cardiology, Municipal Hospital, Kassel, and as a clinical research fellow in the Department of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA. He is full Professor of Medicine at the University of Göttingen.
Dr. Zeymer is or has chaired or been a member of the Steering Committee numerous trials in patients with acute coronary syndromes, antithrombotic therapies and anticoagulants. In addition, he has been chair or member of the Steering committee of several international registries in interventional cardiology, treatment of hypertension, anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation and acute coronary syndromes. He has been co-chairman of the largest randomized clinical studies in patients with infarct-related cardiogenic shock, such as the IABP-SHOCK 2 trial, the CULPRIT-Shock trial and the ECLS-Shock trial.
Dr. Zeymer has authored and co-authored over 600 scientific papers on cardiovascular disease in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, European Heart Journal, Circulation and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Zeymer is member of the editorial board of Clinical Research in Cardiology, European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care and is European Editor for Cardiology and Therapy
Dr. Zeymer has been the Board member Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Association for Acute Cardiovascular Care (ACVC) of the ESC, the Chair of the Working Group of Thrombosis of the German Cardiac Society and the Chair of the Working for Quality Insurance and Registries of the German Cardiac Society. He is the past and current chair of the STEMI Registry of the European Society of Cardiology.