
Dr. med. Kourosh Taghavi
Specialist in Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Personal information
Born in 1971, the eldest son of Dr Masoud Taghavi and Dipl. Ing. (engineer graduate) Giti Mirmiran.
Father of three.
School education
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1991
Humboldt-Gymnasium grammar school, Düsseldorf, Germany
University entrance qualification
Higher education
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October 1991–March 1992
Voluntary work for the German Red Cross at St.Vinzenz Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany
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April 1992
Began studying human medicine at university, Hamburg, Germany
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January 1993
Transferred to Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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1994–1998
Student tutoring activities in the Institute of Pathology and Institute of Anatomy
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October 1998–September 1999
Practical year in Gerresheim Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany
Optional subject: gynaecology and obstetrics
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. med. W. Audretsch and Prof. Dr. med. Albrecht -
November 1999
Third state examination at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Doctorate
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June 2001
Clinical and experimental work on the topic of
"LOH analyses of BRCA1, BRCA2 and TP53 markers in spontaneous breast cancer"Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. med. M.W. Beckmann
Prof. Dr. med. H.G. BenderSubmitted to the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Awarded the grade "good"
Career
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December 1999–May 2001
Internship at Bethanien in Moers Hospital, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfram Niedner Obtained limited licence to practise medicine -
June 2001
Obtained licence to practise medicine
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June 2001–January 2005
Junior doctor at Bethanien in Moers Hospital, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfram Niedner -
December 2004
Director of the Urogynaecological Section (advisory centre certified by the German Continence Society)
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January 2005
Specialist in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Medical Association of North Rhine
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February 2005
Appointed to the post of clinical and surgical consultant at the gynaecological hospital
Bethanien in Moers Gynaecological Hospital, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfram Niedner -
January 2005
Senior Consultant in the Urogynaecological Section
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January 2006
Head of the Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Centre, Left Lower Rhine region, Germany (advisory centre certified by the German Continence Society)
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June 2006
Appointed to the post of deputy director of the certified cooperative Euregio Breast Centre, Left Lower Rhine region,
Moers/Goch/Nijmegen -
September 2008
Appointed to the post of deputy chief of medicine of the gynaecological hospital
Bethanien in Moers Gynaecological Hospital, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Osmers -
October 2008
Appointed to the post of director of the certified cooperative Euregio Breast Centre, Left Lower Rhine region, Moers/Goch/Nijmegen
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January 2010
Chief of medicine in the Department for Gynaecology and Obstetrics
SANA Hospital
Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, Germany -
June 2011
Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee at Gerresheim Hospital, Germany
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June 2013
Left position as chief of medicine at SANA Hospital, Gerresheim
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June–August 2013
Humanitarian aid mission performing gynaecological surgery in the Kingdom of Bhutan
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November 2013
Went into private practice and established the Centre for Surgical Gynaecology and the Rhineland Pelvic Floor Centre, Düsseldorf, Germany
In the GrandArc
Areas of focus
- Surgical gynaecology
- Gynaecological oncology and surgical oncology
- Urogynaecology – certified pelvic floor surgery
- Specialised gynaecological endoscopic surgery
- Senology
- Modern, individual approaches to incontinence and prolaps surgery, including all net- and mesh-supported procedures
- Specialised endoscopic surgical procedures, including LAVH, LASH, TLH, lymphadenectomy, endometriosis surgery, operative hysteroscopy
- Gynaecological radical oncological surgery
- Reconstructive, oncoplastic and cosmetic breast surgery
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Since January 2005
Surgical and clinical consultant/deputy chief of medicine specialising in oncology, urogynaecology and senology
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April 2008
Qualified as a specialist in gynaecological oncology
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July 2009
Obtained the qualification AGUB II from the German Study Group for Urogynaecology and Plastic Pelvic Floor Reconstruction
Advanced training/continuing medical education
Examples:
Ultrasound DEGUM I in vaginal sonography (level I certification from the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine)
Ultrasound DEGUM I in breast sonography (level I certification from the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine)
Doppler sonography: basic, advanced and final course
2002 – Prof. Dr. med. F.Degenhardt, Osnabrück, Germany
Breast sonography: basic, advanced and final course
2002 – Prof. Dr. med. F. Degenhardt, Lüneburg, Germany
Urogynaecological courses, including:
Bard® Pelvic Floor Surgery Master Class (basic and advanced courses) Shadowed the following:
- Dr. med. A. Fischer, Wiesbaden, Germany
- University of Leuven, Belgium
- Dr. med. A. Fischer, Rüdesheim, Germany
- Dr. med. Ch. Fünfgelt, Tettnang-Bodensee, Germany
- Dr. med. H. Ashour, Iserlohn, Germany
- Dr. med. Anding, Osnabrück, Germany
- Dr. med. Kociszewski, Hagen, Germany
- Prof. Dr. R. Tunn, Berlin, Germany
- Dr. med. Bentler, Kassel, Germany
- Dr. med. Kofta, Prague, Czech Republic
- Dr. med. S. Zachmann
- GinTeam, Turin, Italy
Endoscopic surgery:
- PD Dr. med. M. Corell, Duisburg, Germany
- Prof. Dr. med. Volz, Bielefeld, Germany
- Prof. Dr. med. Hucke, Wuppertal, Germany
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM):
2000/2001 – Dr. med. S. Kirchhoff, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
2006 – stereocolposcopy, Dr. med. J. Quaas, Wiesbaden, Germany
2008 – Colposcopy Diploma, Graz, Austria
Memberships
- German Study Group for Urogynaecology & Plastic Pelvic Floor Reconstruction (AGUB)
- German Continence Society (DKG)
- German Society for Senology (DGS)
- German Study Group for Gynaecological Oncology (AGO)
- German Study Group for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy
- German Study Group for Gynaecological and Obstetrical Endoscopy (AGE)
- German Professional Association of Gynaecologists (BVF)
- German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM)
- German Menopause Society (DMG)
- Düsseldorf Gynaecologists (registered voluntary association – e.V.) (DÜFF)