Vascular surgeon
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Asklepios Clinic Wandsbek, Asklepios Medical School, Hamburg, Germany
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Asklepios Clinic Wandsbek, Asklepios Medical School, Hamburg, Germany
Associate Professor Dr. Christian-Alexander Behrendt (MD, FESVS) is vascular and endovascular surgeon and head of the department of vascular and endovascular surgery at the Asklepios Clinic Wandsbek in Hamburg, Germany. He is fellow member of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS). He is section editor for peripheral arteries of the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVES). His main field in clinical care is lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original contributions and reviews (more than 60 of them as first or last author in highly-ranked scientific journals, 1st quartile in surgery). Christian is current co-chair of the ESVS 2024 clinical practice guidelines on asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication, and member of the writing committee of the ESVS clinical practice guidelines on antithrombotics in vascular disease.