Professor of Cardiac Surgery
University of Heidelberg
SCIENTIFIC VITA
| 1978 – 1985 | Medical Education University of Naples, Italy |
| 1985 – 1988 | Research Fellow, Department of Cardiology, University of Naples, Italy |
| 1988 – 1989 | Resident in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg |
| 1989 | Italian Board of Cardiology |
| 1989 – 1995 | Resident in Cardiac Surgery Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg |
| 1992 | PhD University of Naples, Italy |
| 2003 | German Board of Cardiac Surgery |
| 2004 | German Board of Medical Informatics |
| 2008 – 2015 | Programme Director off-pump coronary artery bypass and cardiac arrhythmia surgery, University Hospital Heidelberg |
| 2006 – 2015 | Director of Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TR 125 Cognition Guided Surgery, Project B01. |
| Since 2006 | Professor of Cardiac Surgery University Hospital Heidelberg |
AWARDS
| 1991 | Research Prize of the “European Society of Cardiology” |
| 1993 | Best Presentation Award at GCR Heart, Rome |
| 1999 | St. Jude Medical Prize at the 28th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |
| 2006 | Ethicon-Prize at the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION
| 2006 – 2009 | EACTS Information Officer |
| 2006 – 2009 | Council Member of European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) |
| 2006 – 2010 | Board of Directors des „Cardiothoracic Surgery Network“ (CTSNet) |
| 2010 | Board of Directors of „Cardiothoracic Surgery Network“ (CTSNet) |
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
De Simone, R., Glombitza, G., Vahl, C.F., Albers J., Meinzer H-P., Hagl, S., 1999. „Three-dimensional color doppler: a clinical study in patients with mitral regurgitation” In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 33(6), 1646-1654
Engelhardt, S., De Simone, R., Full, P.M., Karck, M., Wolf, I. (2018). “Improving Surgical Training Phantoms by Hyperrealism: Deep Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation from Real Surgeries”. 21st conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), 2018.
Engelhardt, S., Wolf, I., Al-Maisary, S., Schmidt, H., Meinzer, H.-P., Karck, M., De Simone, R., 2016. „Intraoperative Quantitative Mitral Valve Analysis Using Optical Tracking Technology.” In: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 101(5): 1950–1956.
Engelhardt, S., De Simone, R., Al-Maisary, S., Kolb, S., Karck, M., Meinzer, H.-P., Wolf, I., 2016. “Accuracy evaluation of a mitral valve surgery assistance system based on optical tracking.” In: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 11(10), 1891–1904.
Engelhardt, S., Lichtenberg, N., Al-Maisary, S., De Simone, R., Rauch, H., Roggenbach, J., Müller, S., Karck, M., Meinzer, H.-P., Wolf, I., 2015. “Towards Automatic Assessment of the Mitral Valve Coaptation Zone from 4D Ultrasound.” In: Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, pp. 137–145.