Investigators

Univ.-Prof. Dr.--Wahlers-Thorsten
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wahlers

Principal Investigator

Coordinating Study Center

Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trial Center

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Elmar Kuhn - Trial Coordination
Ms. Andrea Plate - Study Nurse
Ms. Alexandra Kühn - Study Nurse

Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center
Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne

Phone +49 (0)221 478 88375
Fax     +49 (0)221 478 98432
e-Mail start-cabg@uk-koeln.de

Trial Steering Committee (TSC)

Prof. Dr. Oliver J. Liakopoulos (PCI), Chairperson
Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery
Heart Center, Cologne University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wahlers (Co-PCI)
Director, Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery
Heart Center, Cologne University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Matthias Thielmann
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
West German Heart Center, University of Essen, Essen, Germany

Prof. Dr. Walter Lehmacher
Director, Institute for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology,
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Dr. Ursula Paulus
Center for Clinical Trials, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Prof. Dr. Oliver Cornely
Center for Clinical Trials, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Dr. Elmar W. Kuhn
Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery
Heart Center, Cologne University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Data Monitoring Committee (DMC)

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Laufs, Cardiologist
Department of Cardiology
University Hospital Homburg, Homburg, Germany

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Hilmar Dörge, Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Director, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Fulda, Germany

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Köpcke, Statistician
Institute of Medical Informatics and Biomathematics
University of Münster, Münster, Germany