Claudia Walther MD, PhD

Claudia Walther, born in 1966, is a senior physician in the Department of Cardiology, Clinic III Cardiology, Angiology, Nephrology at the University Hospital Frankfurt.

Claudia Walther studied human medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. The cardiologist and certified ACHD expert began her medical career in 1995 as an assistant doctor at the Heart Center of the University of Leipzig under Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard Schuler. Here she established, among other things, the cardiac sports group of the Leipzig Heart Center. In 1997, Claudia Walther received her doctorate at the University of Leipzig on the topic "Evaluation of a new scaffold-free biological mitral valve prosthesis - the quadricusp mitral valve (QMV)".

Since 2018, she has been responsible for these areas as a senior consultant in the Department of Cardiology of Clinic III of the University of Frankfurt under Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Zeiher. The cardiologist specializing in interventional cardiology conducts research in the areas of heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, interventional cardiology, and functional coronary diagnostics. She is a member of the German Society of Cardiology - Cardiovascular Research (DGK) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).