DR. MED. HEIKO ZÜRCHER

Specialist in Internal Medicine | Emergency Medicine | Hypertensiologist DHL

2000 Graduation in medicine (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) | clinical traineeships at university hospitals in Australia, Thailand, Malta
1996 - 2004 Basic research and publications on the genetics of arterial hypertension (inheritance of high blood pressure) and pharmacology
2003 Doctoral thesis on the molecular genetics of arterial hypertension | Doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. R. Kreutz, Institute for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin
2001 - 2007 Specialist training
2001 - 2002 Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin | Departments: Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology
2002 - 2007 DRK Klinken Berlin/Westend | Departments: Cardiology, gastroenterology, intensive care medicine, emergency unit, emergency doctor (NEF 3305)
2007 Specialist for internal medicine
2007 Internship in ultrasound diagnostics at the Institute of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Rudolph Virchow
Since 2007 Freelancer as emergency doctor/rescue centre doctor in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2008 Additional qualification in rescue medicine | certification in hypertensiology (specialist for high blood pressure)
Since 2008 Joined the practice of Dr. med. Ilka Knur | Today Praevenio
2009 Certifications in psychosomatics and travel medicine
Further education Sports medicine, manual medicine/chirotherapy, psychosomatics
Memberships Professional Association of German Internists, Association of Berlin General Practitioners and Federal Association of General Practitioners of Internal Medicine, German Hypertension League, Working Group of Emergency Physicians Berlin, Medical Academy Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Languages German and English
Marital status Married, two children