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Ehsan Natour

Ehsan Natour MD, PhD

Cardiothoracic Surgery
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

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Dr. Ehsan Natour studied medicine at the Christian-Albrecht University zu Kiel in Germany and graduated in 1994. From 1994 to 1999, he completed his training as a Cardiovascular Surgeon at Der Kliniek University in Cologne, Germany. After this he led under the direction of Prof. dr. Dr. Dapunt worked in Oldenburg from 1999 to 2007. He has practiced the full range of cardio surgery and vascular surgery, with a special focus on aortic (valve) surgery. In 2003 he was promoted to Doctor (Magna Cum Laude).

He worked at the University Medical Center Groningen from 2007 to April 2016, where he mainly focused on complex aortic pathology (including endocarditis, aortic arch surgery, endovascular approaches), heart-lung transplants and left ventricle assist devices, in addition to the conventional thorax surgery. He was also the trainer and head of the aortic (valve) surgery program at the UMCG.
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