Name: Prof. Dr. Hakan Akintürk
Date / Place of Birth: 16th April 1964 / Ankara / Turkey
1981 – 1987 Medical Faculty of the Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
1987 – 1988 General Medicine Fellowship, Gaziantep, Turkey
08/88 – 03/89 Goethe Institute, Göttingen
1989 – 1995 Cardiac Surgery Fellowship, University Giessen, Germany (Prof. Hehrlein)
1995 Attending cardiovascular surgeon
1995 – 1997 Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Fellowship, University Giessen, Germany (Prof. Dapper)
2000 Vice director for Cardiac Surgery, University Giessen and Head of the Section of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
2008 Doctorate; doctoral thesis: Transposition of the great arteries in newborns: Arterial switch operation combined with VSD closure with membranous Amplatzer VSD Occluder as new hybrid approach.
2009 Associate Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Postdoctoral habilitation: Hybrid palliation in newborns with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome; basis for univentricular or biventricular reconstruction.
2012 1st place for “W3-Professor” for Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery in MHH, Hannover and University of Münster
Since 2012 W3-Professor of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Head of the Department of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery and Co-Chair of the Pediatric Heart Center Giessen