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Philipp Beerbaum, MD

Professor
German Centre for Cardiovascular Research; University Children’s Hospital, Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany

Dr Philipp B. J. Beerbaum MD PhD currently serves as Head of Service of the Division for Paediatric Cardiology and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine at the Children's Hospital of the Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany, where he was appointed as a full Professor of Paediatrics in 2012. He was as Paediatrician in Cologne, Germany and underwent fellowships in both Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine and Paediatric Cardiology at the Heartcenter NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Since 1998 he has been active as a researcher in the field of pediatric cardiovascular science, with a special emphasis on cardiovascular anatomy and physiology using multimodality imaging. He was founding member of the German Competence Network Congenital Heart Disease and the National Registry of Congenital Heart Disease (2004-2005) and served as clinical researcher within this network. Between 2007and October 2011 he worked in London, UK, as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering of King’s College London, UK, and honorary consultant paediatric cardiologist at Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He has been awarded with research grants from the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), from the Medical Research Council (MRC, UK), as well as from the German Heart Research Foundation, the German Research Foundation for a research cardiac catheter lab and a research 3T MR-system, as well as from various charity foundations both in UK and in Germany. He has written >120 original research articles and many book chapters. Between 2012 and 2022 he has served as Associate Editor of “Circulation – Cardiovascular Imaging”. He served for the SCMR Programme Commisson between 2010 and 2014. He is a member of the European Association for Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) with a focus on paediatric cardiac MRI.

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