Professor Dr. med. Malte Kelm, FESC has been appointed to Head of the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in April 2009.
Between 1986 and 1987 he completed an Internship and Residency in the Department of Neurology at the University of Cologne and was a Research Associate at the Laboratory for Vascular Ultrasound at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research. From1987 to 1989, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Physiology at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf with Prof. Dr. J. Schrader being his scientific mentor. During this time he was a visiting scientist with Prof. Dr. J. Pearson at the Clinical Research Centre, Section of Vascular Biology, King's College London.
Professor Kelm spent most of his clinical career (1989-2005) in the Department of Medicine, Division for Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf (Chair: Prof. Dr. Bodo E. Strauer). During this time, he rose up the ranks from resident and fellow to assistant and, finally, associate professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine. From 1998 to 2005 he proceeded as a full professor for Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine. In 2005 he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, where he was active until March 2009.
During his scientific career he has won several prestigious awards including the Homburg Award, Walter Clawiter Award, Gerhard Hess Fellowship, Albert Fraenkel Award, and Arthur Weber Award. His scientific interests include interventional catheterization and cardiac imaging techniques. Furthermore, he has developed a profound expertise in the underlying mechanisms and therapy of coronary micro and macro-angiopathy with special focus on molecular mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction in general and nitric oxide pathways in particular.
