Mr André Simon
Director of Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support & Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Adjunct Reader, Imperial College, London
Mr André Simon’s areas of expertise include cardiac surgery and heart failure surgery, total arterial revascularization, aortic surgery and reconstructive aortic valve surgery, heart and heart-lung transplantation, living related lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices (artificial hearts) and ex vivo lung perfusion for cancer patients.
Mr Simon is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon the Director of the Department for Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support.
He trained at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, the Harvard Medical School, USA and the Hannover Medical School, Germany, where he qualified as a cardiac and thoracic surgeon.
Mr Simon worked as an attending cardiac surgeon at Hannover Medical School from 2003 to 2010 and was the director of the Hannover Thoracic Transplant Program in 2007-2010, where he was instrumental in the clinical development of minimally invasive lung transplantation, the development of new ex vivo lung perfusion techniques and the concept of partial circulatory support.
Mr Simon’s scientific interests include transplantation and transplantation immunology, cardiac imaging and ventricular assist devices.
He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and editorials, and has contributed chapters to a variety of text books.
As well as being a reviewer for a number of international peer-reviewed journals, Mr Simon is a member of numerous international boards and scientific advisory committees.
