Medic Oliver Dewald appointed

Prof. Dr. Oliver Dewald has been appointed Professor of Heart Surgery at the Department of Human Medicine. He is also director of the University Department for Cardiac Surgery at the Klinikum Oldenburg.

Previously Dewald worked at the Department for Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn, where he was head of the Section for Congenital Heart Surgery in Children and Adults. Dewald studied human medicine at the LMU Munich, where he earned his doctorate in 1999. A two-year research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) took him to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas (US). Before earning his Habilitation and consultancy licence in 2008 he was a junior doctor at the Department for Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Bonn. He then became consultant and in 2015 head of the pediatric heart surgery programme at the University Hospital Bonn. His work focuses on inflammatory responses and tissue remodelling in diseased hearts.