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Univ.Prof. Dr. Alfred Kocher

Univ.Prof. Dr. Alfred Kocher

Cardiac Surgery
Vienna, Austria |
German
English
Prof. Kocher is a cardiologist with more than 20 years of surgical experience at the University Hospital of Vienna and international clinics. He specializes in the surgical treatment of valve diseases of the heart, in particular the Ross procedure, the Tyrone-David operation, and new valve devices. From coronary heart disease...more
Initial consultation
Video call | 0.5h
Duration: up to 30 minutes
470 €

Services

  • Aortic surgery
  • Heart bypass surgery
  • Heart transplant surgery
  • Heart valve replacement surgery
  • Pacemaker implantation
  • Ross surgery

Education

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

  • 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

  • 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

Experience

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

  • Senior Physician for cardiac surgery at AKH

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

Memberships

  • European Society for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

  • German Society for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

  • Austrian Society for Cardiac Surgery

  • Austrotransplant: Austrian Society for Transplant Medicine

A medical sensation in Vienna: thanks to two outstanding surgeons, Alfred Kocher and Günter Laufer, in 2022, the AKH performed the first successful aortic valve implantation.

"In this new surgical procedure, the implant is precisely tailored to the patient's anatomy after a CT scan," Professor Kocher explained to The Krona. "This innovative surgical technique developed in England is based entirely on personalized medicine," added Professor Laufer, who heads the AKH Cardiac Surgery Clinic. This is the first time such a surgical procedure has been successfully performed in Austria.

Initial consultation
Video call | 0.5h
Duration: up to 30 minutes
470 €