Education
Stanford University.
physician university professor
Stanford University.
After finishing his medical education at the University of Hamburg, Hanover Medical School and Stanford University, he was a faculty member at Stanford for several years He earned his Habilitation at Hanover Medical School in 1998 and was an extraordinary Professor of Internal Medicine and Experimental Cardiology at Hanover Medical School from 2002. He became the Director of Hanover Clinical Trial Center GmbH in 2005. Originally the company was a pharmaceutical company performing clinical tests.
Since October 2011 the company has shifted its focus to business development (medical engineering) in the region of Hanover.
Heiko and Ursula von der Leyen have seven children.
He is a member of the Von der Leyen family.