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Thorsten Lewalter

Thorsten Lewalter MD, PhD

Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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Dr. Thorsten Lewalter is a specialist in internal medicine/cardiology. After studying in Marburg and Würzburg, he specialist in training at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), where he worked for many years as a senior consultant. 2007 appointment as a university professor for clinical and experimental electrophysiology at the UKB. Chief physician positions in Paderborn, Bonn, and Munich followed. He is internationally renowned as an expert in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and is a co-editor of numerous specialist journals and specialist books. 

Dr. Thorsten established numerous new treatment methods such as LASER ablation for atrial fibrillation and is one of the co-founders of modern therapy for cardiac arrhythmias. He is also a proven expert in all interventional cardiology procedures (cardiac catheters) and a proctor for modern therapy procedures (e.g. atrial occlusion). Since 2008 he has been teaching as an adjunct professor at the University Hospital in Bonn.

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