Volker Rudolph

Prof Volker Rudolph is Director of the Clinic for General and Interventional Cardiology / Angiology at the Heart and Diabetes Center NRW (University Hospital of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum) in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. He studied medicine at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and earned his doctorate magna cum laude in 2003. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, he completed his habilitation at the University Heart Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, focusing on cardiovascular inflammation.

Prof Rudolph’s clinical and research interests include interventional cardiology, structural heart disease and heart failure, with a strong emphasis on translational cardiovascular research and imaging. He erves as the spokesperson for the German Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, promoting international collaboration in cardiovascular medicine.