Christoph Huber Explained

Christoph Huber
Birth Place:Liestal, Switzerland
Occupation:Cardiac Surgeon; Medical device inventor; Author

Christoph Huber MD, FMH, FECTS is a Swiss cardiac surgeon who is a professor and the head of the Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland.[1] [2]

Huber also maintains a research program,[3] is an inventor, book author and entrepreneur, having founded the company Endoheart AG.[4] He is the inventory of the transapical (TA) TAVI for cardiac surgery

Biography

Christoph Huber completed his Dr. med. at the Bern University Medical School in Basel, Switzerland, his General Surgery Residency at the District Hospital Biel in Biel and his Cardiovascular Residency at the University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland.

Between 2002-07/08, Huber attended the University Hospital Lausanne (including a senior cardiac surgical clinical fellowship 2004–05 at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK (Senior Fellow Congential Cardiac Surgery); returning to University Hospital Bern in 2009 as a Senior Consultant Cardiovascular Surgeon (MD, FMH), Director of the Surgical Transcatheter Valve Implantation (TAVI) Program, lecturer, and Medical Superintendent of adult cardiac surgery.[5]

In 2016, Huber became the Head of Division Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (Médecin-chef de service) at the University Hospital Geneva (HUG). Huber also published a textbook on transcatheter valve therapies (TCVT) in 2009.

Inventor

Huber developed the transapical (TA) TAVI [5] in 2004 which introduced a less invasive antegrade, versus transfemoral/TF retrograde, approach to the heart,[6] [7] [8] [9] and his later research, into a percutaneous transapical TAVI platform, led to his invention of the first successful experimental closure device (TA Plug).[10] Huber also opened a startup company and assisted in the development of the Acurate TA (Symetis) device which received CE approval in 2011.[11] [12] [13]

Awards

Societies

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ctsnet.org/home/chuber Christoph Huber entry at CTSnet
  2. http://www.hug-ge.ch/chirurgie-cardiovasculaire/equipe University Hospital Geneva website
  3. Web site: Database Christoph Huber research/citations/publications . 2016-02-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160126073734/http://www.insel.ch/de/suchen/?tx_indexedsearch%5Bsword%5D=christoph+huber&searchlang=de . 2016-01-26 . dead .
  4. http://www.moneyhouse.ch/en/u/endoheart_ag_CH-020.3.032.631-7.htm?t= Moneyhouse Registry database – Huber-EndoHeart
  5. http://www.herzundgefaesse.insel.ch/de/aerzteteam/huber-christoph/ Profile Huber - University Hospital Bern
  6. https://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/5/754.full Do valved stents compromise coronary flow?, Oxford Journals – January 2004 (Huber early research)
  7. http://www.eacts.org/media/32971/2012mondayeactslrred_part1.pdf TA Plug, European Assoc. for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery - EACTS – October 2012 (PDF link – refer “TA Plug” - Huber as inventor of transapical (TA) – page 1/missing last lines and not found in rest of PDf)
  8. http://icvts.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/5/806.full Transapical access closure: the TA PLUG device, Oxford Journals – June 2013 (Huber 2012 research, presented EACTS Oct. 2012; connects Huber with Swiss National Grant (3200B-113437), Edwards Lifesciences, Symetis, Medtronic)
  9. http://www.annalscts.com/article/view/499/904 Transapical vs. transfemoral aortic valve implantation, Thomas Walther – July 2012
  10. http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223%2808%2901566-3/abstract Valved stents for transapical pulmonary valve replacement, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2009 (Huber and valved stent development)
  11. http://www.cxvascular.com/cn-latest-news/cardiovascular-news---latest-news/1000th-patient-implanted-with-acurate-ta?highlight=Acurate%20TA Cardiovascular News – October 2013 (Symetis CE Approval; connects T Walther, device background) Page accessed April 18, 2016
  12. https://www.symetis.com/products/publications Huber research link to Symetis database
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309145426/http://mmcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/2014/mmu017.full Transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the second-generation self-expanding Symetis ACURATE TA valve, Oxford Journal – October 2014 (with Huber connection to Symetis, Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic
  14. http://www.herzundgefaesse.insel.ch/en/research/funding-and-awards/research-awards/ Bern Hospital – Research Awards
  15. http://www.swissheart.ch/index.php?id=283&no_cache=1&L=3&tx_ttnews%5Bpointer%5D=4&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=215&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=8fddcdcbc844100caa9d9ef9bbd53223 Swiss National Heart Foundation (SNF)
  16. http://www.swisscardiac.org/Ueber_Uns Swiss Society of Thoracic-Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Board Members
  17. http://www.eacts.org/images/2015EACTSFullProgrammeeBook1.pdf EACTS Report/29th Annual Meeting – October 2015 (PDF - refer p. 28)

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