Prof. Udo P. Sechtem

Udo Sechtem works as a senior research adviser at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, Germany. He also sees outpatients 3 days a week as a general cardiologist.

He is a member of the Board of the German Heart Foundation and chairman of the Board of the German Foundation for Heart Research. For the European Society of Cardiology he serves as a member of the Nominating and the Declaration of Interest committees.

His research interests currently focus on abnormalities of coronary function. He has also done research in the fields of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and inflammatory heart diseases.