Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs graduated from medical school at the Maastricht University in 1982. He then started as a clinical research fellow at the department of Physiology until 1984 under supervision of Prof Rob Reneman. Following, he served as a general surgery resident at the Department of Surgery of the Academic Hospital Maastricht (Chief: Prof Co Greep).
In 1985 he defended his PhD-thesis entitled “Capillary microscopy and haemorheology in vasospastic and occlusive vascular diseases”.
In 1988 he left for a clinical cardiovascular fellowship at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas under the leadership of Dr Denton Cooley and Dr George Reul. In 1990 he returned to Maastricht and was appointed as a staff vascular surgeon at the Academic Hospital. In 1993 he was invited to chair the vascular surgical program at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and he was appointed as Professor in 1995. In 2000 he accepted the chair of Surgery at the Academic Hospital Maastricht. In 2005 he was also invited to built a new academic department of Vascular Surgery at the University Hospital in Aachen, Germany and until now he combines both Professorships in both countries.
His main interest is in aortic pathology and especially in the treatment of thoraco-abdominal aneurysms. Since 14 years he organises the European Vascular Course.