Renate B. Schnabel, MD, MSc is professor of internal medicine and cardiology, interventional cardiologist and consultant in cardiology at University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg. She graduated from medical school from Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. After a research fellowship at the Framingham Heart Study, Boston University she moved to Hamburg.
Her clinical practice focuses on coronary interventions and structural heart disease. She works with clinical and population cohorts and leads national and EU-funded international consortia such as AFFECT-EU (affect-eu.eu) for atrial fibrillation screening and refined atrial fibrillation risk prediction. She is PI of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research and on the steering committee of AF Screen International Collaboration.
Her research interest is in digital cardiology, atrial fibrillation, heart failure and omics for cardiovascular risk assessment. Very active within professional organizations, she is member on councils of the European Society of Cardiology, American Heart Association and the German Cardiac Society. She would like to bring in the cardiologist’s perspective to Brain Health at the VBHI.
What most people know, Renate is a chocoloate addict. She bikes to every emergency, summer and winter, wearing a neon helmet, of course.
