Bart Maesen PhD

Dr. Bart Maesen studied medicine at the University of Antwerp. After obtaining his diploma as a physician he did scientific research on ischemia/reperfusion damage at the University of Antwerp. Afterward, he moved to Maastricht University where he researched various aspects of the substrate of atrial fibrillation in the group of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schotten.

In 2011 he was trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Maastricht UMC + and registered as such in 2017. In 2015 he obtained his doctorate at Maastricht University with a thesis entitled 'Structure-Function Relationship of Atrial Fibrillation Waves in Goat and Man'. In addition to general cardiothoracic procedures, his or her attention within the training will go to minimally invasive surgery (hybrid AF ablation, robotic surgery, transcatheter heart valve intervention).