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Professor Michael A Borger

Heart Center of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Dr. Michael Borger completed his cardiac surgery training and a PhD in Clinical Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Toronto in 2001. Following a one-year Fellowship at the Leipzig Heart Center in 2002, he took a position as Staff Cardiac Surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital and Assistant / Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto from 2002-2006. After his return to Leipzig in 2006 as a Staff Surgeon, he became Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Leipzig in 2008 and was appointed as Assistant Director of the Leipzig Heart Center in 2009. In 2014, Dr. Borger became the Director of Aortic Surgery and the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. In June, 2017 Dr. Borger returned to the Leipzig as the Director of the University Clinic of Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center. His research and clinical interests include surgical management of valvular heart and aortic disease.

2023 ESC Guidelines for the Management of Endocarditis

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Infective Endocarditis

Session type: New ESC Guidelines

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2023 ESC Guidelines for the Management of Endocarditis: Ask the Guidelines Task Force

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Infective Endocarditis

Session type: New ESC Guidelines

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TAVI turned 20! A look back and a vision for the future

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Aortic Valve Intervention

Session type: Symposium

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Pearls of aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Clinical

Session type: Moderated ePosters

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Meet the Experts: mitral and tricuspid valve repair revisited: when to consider surgical or transcatheter approaches

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Valves

Session type: Meet the Experts

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Acute heart failure - Epidemiology, prognosis, outcome 1

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Epidemiology, Prognosis, Outcome

Session type: Moderated ePosters

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Congress committee e-posters choice in aortic and intervention

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Diseases of the Aorta

Session type: Congress Committee e-posters Choice

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15 years of TAVI: increasing evidence for routine use

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Valvular Heart Disease

Session type: Advances in Science

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