Heinz Drexel is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment (VIVIT) at the Academic Teaching Hospital Feldkirch, Austria, and Full Professor of Medicine at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He has over 37 years’ experience in clinical studies.

Prof. Drexel received specialist training in Paediatrics and Surgery and Internal Medicine at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. During his career, he has held prominent positions at several institutions including the University of Innsbruck, the University Hospital of Zurich, the Academic Teaching Hospital of Feldkirch and Bregenz, the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL), and the Drexel University College of Medicine.

He is a former President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)-Working Group “Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy”, and the Austrian Diabetes Association. He is also a Fellow of a number of medical societies including the ESC, the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)(Ed.). He is Past-Dean of the Medical Faculty of the UFL and has been a senior consultant of the Swiss Cardiovascular Center at the University Hospital Bern.

• Jahresbericht 2017, Präzisionsmedizin ist ein neuer Hit, Interview mit Prof. Dr. Heiz Drexel
• Jahresbericht 2018, Lehre an der UFL, Forschung am VIVIT, Interview mit Prof. Dr. Heinz Drexel