Dr. Thomas Weiss

Dr. Thomas Weiss is an interventional cardiologist with extensive experience in acute cardiac care, medical emergency team, ICU/CCU, echocardiography, electrocardiography, pacemaker/ICD outpatients, and heart failure. He is an expert in conservative and invasive hypertension management (RDN) and coronary angiography and intervention (PCI). Dr. Weiss received his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 2003 and his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2012. He completed his specialist t...raining in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Intensive Care Medicine at various institutions, including the Oslo University Hospital, Alfred Hospital at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and the Wilhelminenhospital and Otto Wagner Hospital in Vienna. He was also an SRO at the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases at Monash University Melbourne from 2004 to 2006 and a research fellow at the Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, University of Vienna from 1999 to 2004. Dr. Weiss was accredited as a Specialist in Cardiology and Internal Medicine by the Austrian Medical Council in 2014 and 2012, respectively. He is also the chair of Cardiology at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and a senior lecturer (Priv.-Doz.) for Vascular Biology at the Medical University of Vienna. Dr. Weiss has held various positions in different hospitals in Austria, including the head of the Hypertension Clinic and Cardiology Ward at the Wilhelminenhospital from 2013 to 2018 and the head of the Department for Medicine/Cardiology at the Private Hospital Döbling from 2018 to 2020. He was also the deputy head of the 3rd Medical Department at the Wilhelminenhospital from 2015 to 2018 and an interventional cardiologist at the University Hospital St Pölten from 2018 to 2022. Dr. Weiss is affiliated with various organizations, including the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), the Austrian Society of Hypertension, the Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research, the European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, the Austrian Cardiac Society, the Vienna Medical Association, and International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis. He has received several awards throughout his career, including the Werner Klein Award of the Austrian Hypertension League in 2014, the Research Award of the Vienna Medical Association in 2007, the Young Investigator Award of the ISTH in 2005, the Austrian Cardiologists’ Award - Category Basic Research in 2005, and Special Achievement Award of the ISFP in 2004. Dr. Weiss has authored or co-authored over 140 publications, demonstrating his contributions to the field of cardiology and hypertension management.