Stephan Schueler

Professor Stephan Schueler is Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust, UK. He completed his training in general surgery, traumatology, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Hannover Medical School, Germany in 1986. As a senior surgeon he was part of the team at the German Heart Centre in Berlin from 1986 to 1994, He was appointed as Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, and Medical Director of the new Cardiovascular Institute, Dresden, Germany in 1994 until 2001. Professor Schueler also became Professor for Cardiac Surgery at Medical Faculty, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden, Germany in 1994 until to date.

He currently holds numerous editorial positions including Associate Editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation and member of the editorial board of the Journal Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Professor Schueler has authored and co-authored more than 40 book chapters and commissioned articles, 150 reviewed scientific articles and 200 published abstracts.

He was also president of The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 2002-2003, President of the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery (ESCVS) and Examiner on the European Board for Thoracic- and Cardiovascular Surgery.

He is a member of numerous national and international scientific societies.