Curriculum Vitae - Deutsches Zentrum für Herzinsuffizienz Würzburg

Curriculum Vitae - Deutsches Zentrum für Herzinsuffizienz Würzburg

Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name: Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Thorsten Alexander Bley
Business address:
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Oberdürrbacher Str. 6
97080 Würzburg
Education and Employment
Education and Training
Studies of Medicine, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University of Münster
Semester abroad: Gynaecology and Paediatrics, Tauranga Hospital, New Zealand
Internship Surgery, University Hospital Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
Resident, Paediatrics, University Hospital Freiburg
Scientific Doctorate, Medical Faculty, Westfälische-Wilhelms-University of Münster
Resident and Assistant Scientist, Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University
of Freiburg
Board Approval Diagnostic Radiology
Habilitation Radiology, Medical Faculty, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Medical didactic qualification I, Competence Centre for University Teaching in Medicine,
Baden-Württemberg
DeGIR Qualification in Interventional Radiology, level II, module A, B, C, D
Qualification Q3 Instructor, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI
Positions and Employment
2004
Chief, cardiovascular CT and MRI, Department Diagnostic Radiology, University
Hospital Freiburg
2006
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Freiburg, Departments of
Radiology and Medical Physics
2005-2008
Senior Physician, Department Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Freiburg
2008-2009
Visiting Assistant Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of
Wisconsin USA, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor License, Medicine and Surgery,
2009 - 2013
Senior Physician, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University
Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf and Associate Professor of Radiology
Since 2013
Full Professor and Chairman Department of Diagnostic and Interventional
Radiology, University Würzburg
Scientific Data
 Main interests
Cardiac imaging, in particular cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and cardiac Computed
Tomography (CT);
Vascular imaging, in particular high resolution vascular MRI in giant cell arteritis (GCA), MR and CT
Angiography
 Ongoing research support
DFG (German Research Foundation): BL 1132/1-1 Moving table MRI in systemic vasculitis
 Memberships
Radiological Society of North America, RSNA
European Society of Radiology, ECR
German Roentgen Society (Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft DRG); Work group Cardiag Imaging
Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance, SCBT MR
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, SCCT
German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimal Invasive Therapy (Deutsche Gesellschaft
für interventionelle Radiologie und minimalinvasive Therapie DEGIR);
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE)
 Reviewer positions
Annals of internal Medicine, Arthritis and Rheumatism, European Radiology, RöFo- Fortschr. auf
dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgeb. Verfahren, Investigative Radiolology, Journal of
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Seminars in Arthritis and
Rheumatism, Journal of Computed Tomography,
Reviewer for dissertations and habilitations at the Universities of Freiburg, Hamburg and Berlin.
 Awards/special achievements/honors
2005
Coolidge Award, GE Healthcare, Germany
2005
Eugen-Graetz Award University Freiburg, Germany
2008
IRIYA Program, Radiological Society of North America, USA
2009
Lauterbur Award, Society of Computed Body Tomography and MR, USA
2009
Juhl-Cameron Award, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
2009
Young Investigator Award of the German Roentgen Ray Society
2010
Best scientific paper award of the European Society of Radiology, ESR
2011
Röntgenring of the German Roentgen Society, DRG
2009
Patent PCT/EP2009/005444: twin hose line for the injection of application liquid