Background
Schmitz-Rixen, Thomas Son of Theodor Balthasar and Anita Schmitz.
Schmitz-Rixen, Thomas Son of Theodor Balthasar and Anita Schmitz.
Doctor of Medicine, Cologne University Medical School, Germany. Doctor of Philosophy, Cologne University Medical School, Germany, 1980.
Research fellow, house officer Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1985—1987. Resident University Hospital Cologne, 1980—1985, consultant, 1988—1998. Director, department vascular and endovascular surgery Goethe University Medical Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since 1998.
Chief service, department vascular and endovascular surgery Hospital zum Heiligen Geist, since 2002.
Married Simone Kiefer, October 1, 1993. Children: Isabelle Sophie Kiefer, Thiemo Alexander Kiefer.