Doctor Alfred Kocher

About the Doctor

Certificates

• Professor Kocher's commitment to teaching and mentoring was awarded the EACTS Leonardo Da Vinci Award for Training Excellence in 2011 and the Vienna Medical University Award in 2015

Membership

• German Society for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

• European Society for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

• Austrotransplant: Austrian Society for Transplant Medicine

• Austrian Society for Cardiac Surgery

Experience

• Senior Physician for cardiac surgery at AKH

• Head of the Heart Valve Team at the University Hospital of Vienna (AKH)

Education

• Professor Alfred Kocher, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna and completed his residency in surgery at the Medical University of Vienna

• After training at the General Hospital in Vienna and at the Silesian University in Zabrze, Poland, he worked for five years as an attending cardiac surgeon at the Hindenburg Cardiac Centre, Poland, and at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

• His interest in heart transplantation and myocardial regeneration led him to Stanford University, California, and Columbia University, New York, in the late 1990s

Services

• Aortic surgery

• Heart bypass surgery

• Heart transplant surgery

• Heart valve replacement surgery

• Pacemaker implantation

• Ross surgery