Matthias Sigler MD, PhD

Matthias Sigler is a senior physician in the Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology, Intensive Care Medicine, and Neonatology at the Göttingen University Medical Center at the Georg-August University. Matthias Sigler studied human medicine as well as history and art history at the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg, the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck, and the Philipps University of Marburg. The specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine with additional qualifications in pediatric cardiology, neonatology, pediatric intensive care medicine, and EMAH cardiology completed his training as a pediatrician in 1996 at the University Hospital of RWTH Aachen and his further training as a pediatric cardiologist from 2001 at the Heart Center of the University Medical Center Göttingen. One focus of his research is the new and further development of interventional therapy procedures for congenital heart defects.

To investigate the biocompatibility of cardiovascular implants, Matthias Sigler has set up and established an international research laboratory at the Heart Center of the University Medical Center Göttingen. In 2016, he was awarded the Science Prize of the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology (DGPK) for his research in the field of heart valve implants. Another focus of research and teaching is the morphology of congenital heart defects. Matthias Sigler is a member of the board of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Morphology of the Association of European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC). The clinical focus of his work is on diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheter procedures, the care of patients with complex and particularly cyanotic heart defects, including pulmonary arterial hypertension, as well as neonatology and intensive care medicine. Matthias Sigler is a member of the Congenital Heart Defects Competence Network and has been on the steering committee of the research network since July 2022.