Christian-alexander Behrendt MD

Christian-Alexander Behrendt (M.D.) is a senior consultant vascular & endovascular surgeon and clinical lecturer in vascular surgery. He is a fellow member of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) and an elected member of the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS). In 2019, he was elected as SVS International Scholar. Christian is deputy clinic director & head of the research group GermanVasc in the department of vascular medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed original contributions and reviews (>30 of them as first or last author in highly-ranked journals, 1st quartile in surgery). His research group GermanVasc currently has a research budget of approximately 7 million euros and employs four full-time scientists and statisticians. Between 2014 and 2019, Christian became an expert in real-world-evidence research using health insurance claims data for vascular research and quality improvement. His main field of interest research in health services research, real-world-evidence, big data, and comparative outcome research. His main field in clinical care is peripheral arterial occlusive disease, where he leads the section for peripheral bypass surgery.

Christian is a founding member of the International Consortium of Vascular Registries (ICVR, established in 2015) and the Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet), where he serves as Chair of the German Chapter. Christian is the project lead of numerous prior and ongoing registry studies in Germany (PSI-Registry, EQS-Registry, L-ACMAG, IDOMENEO, RABATT). He is currently leading two large multistage multimethodological projects on the treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) in Germany.