Thorsten Hanke

Thorsten Hanke is Associate Director of the Cardiac Surgery Clinic at the Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. He is specialised in treating atrial fibrillation surgically and inaugurated a surgical stand-alone LAA treatment program at the Cardiac Surgery Clinic in Harburg in 2016. He is the head of the steering committee of the German Surgical ablation registry (CASE-AF), which started in 2016 and which oversees over 400 patients after surgical ablation and LAA treatment.