Christoph Huber

Christoph Huber
Born Liestal, Switzerland
Residence Bern, Switzerland
Occupation Cardiac Surgeon; Medical device inventor; Author

Christoph Huber MD, FMH, is a cardiac surgeon at the University Hospital Bern, Switzerland.[1] He also conducts research[2] and is an inventor and entrepreneur, having founded the company EndoHeart AG.[3]

Biography

Christoph Huber completed his Dr. med. at the University Medical School in Basel, Switzerland, General Surgery Residency at the District Hospital Biel and Cardiovascular Residency at the University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland.[1] Between 2002-07, Huber attended at the University Hospital Lausanne (including a one year senior cardiac surgical clinical fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA) and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK (Senior Fellow Congential Cardiac Surgery); he is now practicing at the University Hospital Bern as a Senior Cardiovascular Surgeon (MD, FMH), Director of the Surgical Transcatheter Valve Implantation (TAVI) Program, lecturer, and Medical Superintendent of adult cardiac surgery.[1][4] Huber also wrote a textbook on transcatheter valve therapies (TCVT) in 2009.[4]

Inventor

Huber developed transapical (TA) TAVI [4] in 2004[5] (a self-expanding and self-centering percutaneous device first implanted by Thomas Walter 2006),[6][7][8] which introduced a less invasive, antegrade (versus transfemoral/TF retrograde) approach to the heart[9] Huber later opened a startup company [3] and assisted in the development of the Acurate TA (Symetis) device which received CE approval in 2011.[10][11][12]

Awards

Sept. 2014 - Swiss SIWF-Award: Distinction as best Swiss teacher for Cardiac Surgery[13]

May 2009 - National Research Prize, Swiss National Heart Foundation: In recognition for development of the transapical TAVI approach (Trans Catheter Valve Replacement of the Aortic Valve - The Direct Access Trans Apical Procedure)[4][14]

Sept. 2005 - St. Jude Medical/C Walton Lillehei Young Investigator's Award, EACTS (19th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain)[1]

Feb. 2004 - ISES Peripheral Vascular Fellow’s Forum Award (2004 Forum, Scottsdale, Arizona): For presentation of ‘New tools for new goals (Ultrasound navigation through the heart for off-pump aortic valved stent implantation)[1]

Oct. 2003 - St. Jude Medical/C. Walton Lillehei Young Investigator’s Award, EACTS (17th Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria): Do Valved Stent Compromise Coronary Flow?[1]

Board Member

Huber is a boad member for the Swiss Society of Thoracic-Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (SGHC)[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Christoph Huber entry at CTSnet Page accessed April 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Database Christoph Huber research/citations/publications
  3. 1 2 Moneyhouse Registry database – Huber-EndoHeart Page accessed April 18, 2016
  4. 1 2 3 4 Profile Huber - University Hospital Bern
  5. ↑ Do valved stents compromise coronary flow?, Oxford Journals – January 2004 (Huber early research) Page accessed April 18, 2016
  6. ↑ 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) Page accessed April 18, 2016
  7. ↑ 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) Page accessed April 18, 2016
  8. ↑ Valved stents for transapical pulmonary valve replacement, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2009 (Huber and valved stent development) Page accessed April 18, 2016
  9. ↑ Transapical vs. transfemoral aortic valve implantation, Thomas Walther – July 2012 Page accessed April 18, 2016
  10. ↑ Cardiovascular News – October 2013 (Symetis CE Approval; connects T Walther, device background Page accessed April 18, 2016
  11. ↑ Huber research link to Symetis database Page accessed April 18, 2016
  12. ↑ 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 Page accessed April 18, 2016
  13. ↑ Bern Hospital – Research Awards Page accessed April 18, 2016
  14. ↑ Swiss National Heart Foundation (SNF) Page accessed April 18, 2016
  15. ↑ Swiss Society of Thoracic-Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Board Members Page accessed April 18, 2016
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