Professor Walter Klepetko
President of the European Association of cardiothoracic surgery (EACTS), he heads the research programs on lung transplantation at the University clinic of Vienna. Professor Klepetko is also the head of the Department of thoracic surgery at the Central clinical hospital of Vienna (AKH). Specialization: lung cancer, lung transplantation, surgical treatment of pulmonological hypertension, surgery of functional lung diseases.
The profile of the disease
Procedures performed by the doctor
Education and work experience
1983-training and work in the II surgical Department Of the University clinic of Vienna.
Since 1989-senior doctor of the II surgical Department Of the University clinic of Vienna.
1989-head of the lung transplantation program, University clinic, Vienna.
Since 1993-senior doctor of the clinical Department of cardiothoracic surgery of the University clinic of surgery.
Since 2003-Professor.
Since 2019-head of the Clinical Department of thoracic surgery, the University surgery clinic of the Vienna medical University and the Vienna General hospital.
