Uli Schotten

Professor

Professor Uli Schotten studied medicine at the universities of Aachen, Glasgow, and Valetta. After four years of training in cardiology at the University Hospital of Aachen, he joined the Department of Physiology at Maastricht University in 1998, first as a scholar of the Academy of Sciences of North-Rhine Westfalia and from 1999 on as a staff member of the department. He defended his thesis 'Mechanisms of Atrial Paralysis in Atrial Fibrillation' at Maastricht University in 2003, and received his habilitation in Experimental Cardiology at the University Hospital in Aachen in 2004. Since 2007, he is Principal Investigator at CARIM. In 2011, he was appointed Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology and became chairman of the Department of Physiology in 2019.

His research interests include cellular and integrated actions of antiarrhythmic drugs, the development of substrates for the perpetuation of atrial fibrillation, invasive and non-invasive quantification of the substrate of atrial fibrillation, interaction between atrial fibrillation and activation of the coagulation system, and three-dimensional computer models of atrial fibrillation. He is coordinator of the CVON network RACE V and PI in numerous national and international research networks. He was member of the European task force for the development of the ESC guidelines for management of atrial fibrillation in 2010, 2012, and 2016. Furthermore, he is member of the Executive Committee of the Network of Competence for Atrial Fibrillation (AFNET), co-founder of the Maastricht University spin-off company YourRhythmics BV, and acts as the chairman of the Strategic board of CARIM.

Department of Physiology
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: 3.130
T: +31(0)43 388 12 00

2024
- Lip, G. Y. H., Nikorowitsch, J., Sehner, S., Becher, N., Bertaglia, E., Blomstrom-Lundqvist, C., Brandes, A., Beuger, V., Calvert, M., Camm, A. J., Chlouverakis, G., Dan, G.-A., Dichtl, W., Diener, H. C., Fierenz, A., Goette, A., de Groot, J. R., Hermans, A., Lubinski, A., ... NOAH-AFNET 6 investigators (2024). Oral anticoagulation in device-detected atrial fibrillation: effects of age, sex, cardiovascular comorbidities, and kidney function on outcomes in the NOAH-AFNET 6 trial. European Heart Journal, Article ehae225. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae225
- Linz, D., Andrade, J. G., Arbelo, E., Boriani, G., Breithardt, G., Camm, A. J., Caso, V., Nielsen, J. C., De Melis, M., De Potter, T., Dichtl, W., Diederichsen, S. Z., Dobrev, D., Doll, N., Duncker, D., Dworatzek, E., Eckardt, L., Eisert, C., Fabritz, L., ... Et al. (2024). Longer and better lives for patients with atrial fibrillation: the 9th AFNET/EHRA consensus conference. EP Europace, 26(4), Article euae070. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euae070
- Becher, N., Toennis, T., Bertaglia, E., Blomström-Lundqvist, C., Brandes, A., Cabanelas, N., Calvert, M., Camm, A. J., Chlouverakis, G., Dan, G.-A., Dichtl, W., Diener, H. C., Fierenz, A., Goette, A., de Groot, J. R., Hermans, A. N. L., Lip, G. Y. H., Lubinski, A., Marijon, E., ... NOAH-AFNET 6 investigators (2024). Anticoagulation with edoxaban in patients with long atrial high-rate episodes ≥24 h. European Heart Journal, 45(10), 837-849. Article ehad771. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad771
- Chua, W., Khashaba, A., Canagarajah, H., Nielsen, J. C., di Biase, L., Haeusler, K. G., Hindricks, G., Mont, L., Piccini, J., Schnabel, R. B., Schotten, U., Wienhues-Thelen, U.-H., Zeller, T., Fabritz, L., & Kirchhof, P. (2024). Disturbed atrial metabolism, shear stress, and cardiac load AF after ablation: AXAFA biomolecule study. EP Europace, 26(2), Article euae028. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euae028
- Gilbers, M. D., Kawczynski, M. J., Bidar, E., Maesen, B., Isaacs, A., Winters, J., Linz, D., Rienstra, M., van Gelder, I., Maessen, J. G., & Schotten, U. (2024). Clinical Predictors of Device-Detected Atrial Fibrillation During 2.5 Years After Cardiac Surgery: Prospective RACE V Cohort. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.01.013
- Farnir, F., Chaldoupi, S.-M., Farnir, F., Schotten, U., Vernooy, K., Luermans, J., & Linz, D. (2024). Focal point-by-point biphasic monopolar pulsed field ablation for posterior wall isolation. EP Europace, (4), Article euae077. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euae077
- Hermans, B., Özgül, O., Wolf, M., Gonçalves Marques, V., van Hunnik, A., Verheule, S., Chaldoupi, S. M., Linz, D., El Haddad, M., Duytschaever, M., Bonizzi, P., Vernooy, K., Knecht, S., Zeemering, S., & Schotten, U. (2024). Selecting repetitive focal and rotational activation patterns with the highest probability of being a source of atrial fibrillation. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus, 7, Article 100064. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772976124000047
2023
- Mulder, B. A., Khalilian Ekrami, N., Van De Lande, M. E., Nguyen, B.-O., Weberndorfer, V., Crijns, H. J., Geelhoed, B., Blaauw, Y., Hemels, M. E., Tieleman, R. G., Scheerder, C. O., De Melis, M., Schotten, U., Linz, D., Van Gelder, I. C., & Rienstra, M. (2023). Women have less progression of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: data from the RACE V study. Open Heart, 10(2), Article e002534. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2023-002534
- Kirchhof, P., Schotten, U., & Zapf, A. (2023). Anticoagulation with Edoxaban in Patients with Atrial High-Rate Episodes. Reply. New England Journal of Medicine, 389(24), 2302-2303. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2312837
- Haeusler, K. G., Eichner, F. A., Heuschmann, P. U., Fiebach, J. B., Engelhorn, T., Callans, D., De Potter, T., Debruyne, P., Scherr, D., Hindricks, G., Al-Khalidi, H. R., Mont, L., Kim, W. Y., Piccini, J. P., Schotten, U., Themistoclakis, S., Di Biase, L., & Kirchhof, P. (2023). Detection of brain lesions after catheter ablation depends on imaging criteria - Insights from AXAFA-AFNET 5 trial. EP Europace, 25(12), Article euad323. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euad323

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