Specialist for heart surgery, implantable cardiac pacemakers

 Senior physician at the department of cardiac and chest surgery, University Clinic of Vienna, General Hospital

• Office hours: Mondays from 3.30 p.m. onward
• Appointments by phone at: +436769012005
• No health insurance companies
• Languages: German, English, Spanish (mother tongue)

Personal data:

• Citizenship: Austrian
• Date of birth: 5 October 1966
• Marital status: Married to Yajaira Garcia de Khazen (graduate engineer)

Training:

• Medical University of Vienna (April 2005 to June 2013)
Degree: Specialist for heart surgery
• Medical University of Vienna (October 2003 to November 2004)
Degree:  Recognition of academic certificates
• Canaima National Park, Venezuela (November 1994 to September 1995)
Venezuelan Art.8°, Justus Practicantis (approbation)
• Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela (September 1985 to November 1994); Degree: General surgery
• Liceo Penalver, Venezuela (September 1977 to July 1984)
Degree:  School-leaving certificate

Other activities and courses:

• ICD and pacemaker electrode extraction with laser technology
• Development of new technologies for cardiac stimulation (cardiac pacing)
• Cardiac resynchronization therapies (CRT-P and CRT-D)
• Cleveland Clinic USA. Electrode extraction training

Scholarships:

One-World Scholarship Program of ÖAD (Austrian Academic Exchange Service) (October 1996 to March 1999)