Background
Unger, Felix was born on March 2, 1946 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria. Son of Carl and Maria Unger.
university professor cardiac surgeon
Unger, Felix was born on March 2, 1946 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria. Son of Carl and Maria Unger.
Doctor of Medicine, U. Vienna, 1971; D (honorary), University Budapest, 1994; D (honorary), University Tokyo, 1997.
In 1986 he performed the first artificial heart transplantation in Europe. After graduation he was practicing at University Clinic for Cardiology in Vienna (1971, 1972) and at the local University Surgical Clinic (1972–1977) and in 1975 as a researcher in the field of Cardiovascular medicine in Houston, Cleveland and Salt Lake City in United States of America. In the year of 1978, he became Associate professor and later Full surgical professor He got his Doctor of Philosophy in 1978.
In Salt Lake City, he invented Ellipsoidherz that he later used for the first implantation of artificial heart in 1986.
In the year 1990, he founded together with kardinal König and Professor. Lobkowitz the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, which at the moment has 1500 members.
Between the years of 1985 and 2011 he was the leader of University Clinic for cardiac surgery in Salzburg, since 2001, he is the president of European Institute of Health.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. European Academy of Sciences and Arts]
Professor Unger is also a member of most important scientific associations, as well as a number of academies of science: a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Latvia, Slovenia and Serbia as well as a regular member of the German Leopoldina, Slovakia and the New York Academy of Sciences and the world and the Montenegrin Academy of sciences and Arts.
Married Monika Von Fioreschy, 1971. Children: Stephan, Matthaus.
