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Dr. Klaus Luque is the chief physician and head of the Ophthalmology Department at the Bremen Mitte Clinic. He specializes in eye surgery and is an expert in ophthalmic surgery, with a degree from the University of Cape Town and experience in clinics in South Africa, Germany, and the US. He is the founder and president of the European VitreoRetinal Society, and a member of many leading ophthalmological organizations. He provides remote consultations and is available for appointment through Bookimed.

Professor Uwe Nixdoff is the clinic's leading cardiologist.

Education and professional experience

• 1978-1985 - Medical Faculty of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt;
• 1985-1986 - Captain of military service in the military hospital, Giessen, Germany;
• 1986-1987 - resident at the German Heart Center in Munich;
• 1988 - Research Fellow at Michael Reese Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Chicago;
• 1989 - Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Virginia, USA;
• 1989 - Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA;
• 1998-2004 - cardiologist at the Friedrich-Alexander University Hospital and the 2nd Medical Hospital in Erlangen, Germany;
• 2005 to present - Director General of the European Centre for Prevention;
• 2007-2010 — private cardiology practice, Duisburg, Germany;
• From 2010 to present – private cardiology practice, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Scientific activity

Professor Uwe Nixdoff has written 62 publications in scientific journals, presented papers at 154 scientific congresses and symposia. The doctor has 18 awards in the field of medicine.

Membership in associations

The professor is a member of 15 specialized associations. The largest of them are:

• European Society of Cardiology;
• American Heart Association;
• New York Academy of Sciences.

Head of the Thoracic Surgery Clinic

Dr. Martin Claßen is a highly experienced pediatric gastroenterologist, specializing in functional disorders and inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents. He holds a degree in general medicine from the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, a specialty in pediatrics from the University Children's Hospital of Essen and a specialty in gastroenterology in children from the Children’s Hospital at the University Hospital Frankfurt. He is a member of the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and the German Society of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Doctor Carsten Michael Oberhoff is a gynecologist and the Head of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Klinikum Links der Weser GmbH Bremen.

Cardiac surgeon. Head of the cardiac surgery department.