Prof. Georg Ertl is the Secretary General of the German Society of Internal Medicine and Senior Professor at the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital Würzburg.
He studied human medicine in Mainz and Graz, took a post-doc in Physiology at Düsseldorf University and at Harvard University, Boston and underwent his further training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Würzburg. In 1995 he was appointed to the Chair of Cardiology at the Medical Faculty Mannheim. In 1999 he moved back to Würzburg where he became the director of the Medical Clinic I at the University Hospital. From 1999 to 2005, he was the spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 355 “Pathophysiology of Heart Failure”. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the dean of the Medical Faculty of the University, and from 2016 to 2020, he was the medical director of the University Hospital Würzburg.
In 2010 Prof. Ertl and his group founded the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center at the University/ University Hospital Würzburg (CHFC) as an interdisciplinary research and treatment center of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. His scientific interests include the mechanisms and prevention of heart failure, imaging and wound healing of the heart, and rare heart diseases.
Prof. Ertl is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, has been president of the German Society of Internal Medicine (2007/8), German Cardiac Society (2011-2013), where he initiated the project “Cardiology in National Socialism” and the Working Groups “Ethics in Cardiology” and “Family in Cardiology”.
Prof. Ertl is (co-) author of more than 760 publications.