Mir Alireza Hoda MD

Mir Alireza Hoda was born in Teheran and came to Austria as a refugee. He completed his medical studies at the Medical University of Vienna in 2006 with a dissertation on "Adipocytokines and bariatric surgery" at the Department of Surgery. Following a six-month internship at Vienna Military Hospital, Hoda transferred to MedUni Vienna, where he worked as a transplant coordinator for the Division of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at the Department of Surgery. In 2009, he started his specialist training to become a thoracic surgeon, working in parallel as a researcher on the Vienna lung transplant program and at MedUni Vienna's Institute of Cancer Research (Ph.D. on the "Malignant Diseases" program since 2012).

After completing his specialist training in March 2016, he finished his Ph.D. in 2017, gaining his postdoctoral qualification in surgery. Since September 2017, he has been working as a senior doctor in the Division of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, Ruhrlandklinik in Essen, where he is spending his year abroad as part of his qualification agreement.

Between 2009 and 2017, Hoda obtained several research grants and received numerous awards and prizes. He gives specialist lectures at home and abroad. In addition to this, he is a member of numerous professional societies.