Robert Cesnjevar
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
Cardiac Surgery Childrens Heart Centre Kinderspital Zuerich
Steinwiesstrasse 75, Zuerich, 8032, Switzerland
About
Medical School 1985-1992 (University Erlangen)
1998 Board Certification Cardiac Surgery
1999-2000 Great Ormond Street Hospital
2005-2008 University Heart Centre Hamburg
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (Head of Department)
2008-2021 University Hospital Erlangen
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (Head of Department)
2021-present Kinderspital Zuerich
Cardiac Surgery Childrens Heart Centre (Head of Department)
1998 Board Certification Cardiac Surgery
1999-2000 Great Ormond Street Hospital
2005-2008 University Heart Centre Hamburg
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (Head of Department)
2008-2021 University Hospital Erlangen
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (Head of Department)
2021-present Kinderspital Zuerich
Cardiac Surgery Childrens Heart Centre (Head of Department)
Research
patientenoriented research
• Outcome of complex cardiac malformations
• Neuroprotection on CPB
• Myocardial protection
• Modified Ultrafiltration
• Tissue engineering
• pediatric MCS (ECMO/VAD)
• “Dynamisation of univentricular hearts” (Fontan-RVAD)
• Growth induction/stimulation of hypoplastic cardiac structures (i.e. HLHC/Hypoplastic Left Heart Complex)
• 3D imaging
Additional Education Information
full Professor since 2008
Practice Areas
Congenital
Cardiac
Congenital