Dr. Uwe Nixdorff

Prof. Dr. med. Uwe Nixdorff is a German internist, cardiologist and sports physician. He is the owner of the cardiology practice and founder and medical director of the European Prevention Center (EPC) in Düsseldorf. Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff's focus is on preventive cardiovascular medicine, particularly on the early detection of atherosclerosis, i.e. stiffening, thickening, and calcification of the vascular wall with a specialism in comprehensive diagnostics (cross-sectional and functional diagnostics).

Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff studied human medicine from 1978 to 1985 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. After a short period as a resident (1985-1986) at the German Heart Center (DHZ) in Munich, Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff switched to the II Medical Clinic at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and completed internal and also cardiological specialty designations. Several research stays in the USA followed in 1988 and 1989: at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, and at the Massachusetts General Hospital of the Harvard Medical School in Boston. At the same time, Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff worked as part of his scientific work until 1998 at the University Hospital in Mainz.

With the venia legendi (Licensed to teach) the teaching activity at the University Hospital Mainz took place as a private lecturer. From 1998 to 2004, Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff worked as a senior physician at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2003 he acquired an additional qualification in sports medicine. In 2005, Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff founded the European Prevention Center (EPC GmbH) initially with a location in Munich, then Berlin, and temporarily in Duisburg, later also in Düsseldorf. From 2007 to 2010 he also ran a private cardiology practice in Duisburg, then in Düsseldorf to this day. After further clinical and experimental work, Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff was appointed adjunct professor (APL) at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2008. In addition to his teaching activities there, Prof. Dr. med. Nixdorff was also a visiting professor of the master's program "Master of Science in Preventive Medicine (M.Sc.)" at the Dresden International University (DIU) in the years of 2010-2016. From 2015 to 2016 he was also the scientific director.