Martin Biermann, M. D.

My background:

Grew up in Recklinghausen/Germany, a medium-sized town at the Northern fringe of the "Ruhr", one of Gemany's traditional coal mining and heavy industry districts

1985 - 1990: Medical Training at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster/Germany
1990 - 1992: M.D. thesis on "The reproducibility of cardiac electrophysiologic mapping" (summa cum laude) (thesis advisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Günter Breithardt)
1992 - 1995: Resident physician at the Medizinische Klinik Innere Medizin C (Cardiology) (Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Günter Breithardt) at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1995 - 1997: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Grant at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology (Supervisor: Douglas P. Zipes, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of the Krannert Institute)
1997: Research fellow at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology at Indiana University School of Medicine

Biermann, M.: "The reproducibility of cardiac electrophysiologic mapping." (M. D. thesis). Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster 1993.
Biermann, M., Shenasa, M., Borggrefe, M., Hindricks, G., Haverkamp, W., Breithardt, G.: "The interpretation of cardiac electrograms." In: Shenasa, M., Borggrefe, M., Breithardt, G. (Hrsg.): Cardiac mapping. Mount Kisko, New York: Futura Publishing Co., Inc., 1993, 11-34.
Breithardt, G., Shenasa, M., Biermann, M., Haverkamp, W., Hindricks, G., Vogt, B., Reinhardt, L.: "Precision and reproducibility of isochronal electrical cardiac mapping." In: Shenasa, M., Borggrefe, M., Breithardt, G. (Hrsg.): Cardiac Mapping. Mount Kisko, New York: Futura Publishing Co., Inc., 1993, 35-49.
Biermann, M.: "Die Autoophthalmoskopie. Eine historische Rückschau." Zeitschrift für praktische Augenheilkunde 15: 191-195, 1994.
Efimov, I. R., Cheng, Y., Biermann, M., van Wagoner, D. R., Mazgalev, T., Tchou, P. J. Transmembrane voltage changes produced by real and virtual electrodes during monophasic defibrillation shock delivered by an implantable electrode. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 8:1031-1045, 1997.
Biermann, M., Zipes, D. P. A new mapping-system independent analysis program for extracellular electrograms and optical action potentials [Abstract.]. European Heart Journal 18::38A, 1997.