Autor: Boris Bigalke

Professor Boris Bigalke, MD, MBA (Oxford, UK), LL.M. works as an attending and head of the DGK Cardio MRI Qualification Center at the German Heart Center of the Charité (DHZC), Campus Benjamin Franklin, Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine. He also practices complementary medicine with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM) and yoga movement theory as a sideline. Professor Bigalke is a specialist in internal medicine and holds specializations and additional qualifications in cardiology, acupuncture, nutritional medicine DAEM/DGEM® and magnetic resonance imaging. After studying medicine at the Free University of Berlin, he continued his scientific and clinical career at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen. Further training led him to surgery at the LIJ Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, to TCM at the WHO Collaborating Center, Beijing, China and to TTM at the Qusar Tibetan Healing Centre, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India. During a long-term research stay, he also worked at King“s College London, Division of College London, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering London as an Assistant Professor/Honorary Lecturer. He also completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Healthcare Management at Magna Carta College, Oxford, UK, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with a focus on medical law at the Dresden International University. He is Associate Editor in the journal „ESC Heart Failure“ and reviewer in various medical journals and author of more than 130 scientific peer-reviewed publications. Professor Bigalke has been elected as one of Germany“s top physicians in FOCUS-Gesundheit 2021 in the category of cardiological sports medicine, and in 2023 and 2024 in the categories of hypertension and nutritional medicine.