Georg M. Wieselthaler, MD, is a 1987-graduate of the Medical University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, his native country. His postgraduate training includes his Military Service at Military Hospital’s Department of Surgery in Vienna, Austria (1988-1989), as well as his surgical residency performed with the 2nd Department of Surgery at the University of Vienna (1989-1995). Dr. Wieselthaler completed two advanced fellowships as Staff Surgeon with St. Pölten Hospital’s Department of Surgery in Austria (1996-1997, 1997-1998), as well as a fellowship in heart transplantation with the Vienna Heart Transplant Program (1998-2000) and a fellowship in lung transplantation with the Vienna Lung Transplant Program (2000-2003). Prior to medical school, he completed his undergraduate education in electrical engineering at the College for Electrical Engineering (1978). President-elect of the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, Dr. Wieselthaler is on the Board of the European Society for Artificial Organs. He is also former president of the Austrian Society for Implantology and Tissue Integrated Prosthesis. In April 2011, he was named Director of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. For more information about Georg M. Wieselthaler, MD, please visit https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/3242693-Georg-Wiesthelthaler-Doctor.