Simon Schalla

Assistant Professor

Dr Simon Schalla is involved in clinical reading, teaching and research in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging since 1997. Focus of his research is imaging of cardiovascular disease using echocardiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

Postgraduate medical training
1995 - 2006 1) University Hospital Ulm, 2) University Hospital Tübingen, 3) German Heart Institute Berlin/Charite, Humboldt University
2001 - 2003 Fellow of the German Cardiac Society at the University of California San Francisco, Cardiac MR Imaging

Positions
Since December 2003 Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Cardiology. Since 2014 also a shared appointment at the Departments of Cardiology and Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Center

Doctoral thesis
Biologisch-physikalische Charakterisierung der Strahlenqualität schneller Neutronen bei isozentrischer Bewegungsbestrahlung, Heidelberg, 26-10-1994

PhD-thesis
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance: A key to imaging cardiac function, Maastricht, 06-07-2015

Department of Cardiology
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
T: +31(0)43 387 70 93

  • 2010
    • Verjans, J., Wolters, S., Laufer, W., Schellings, M., Lax, M., Lovhaug, D., Boersma, H., Kemerink, G. J., Schalla, S., Gordon, P., Teule, J., Narula, J., & Hofstra, L. (2010). Early molecular imaging of interstitial changes in patients after myocardial infarction: Comparison with delayed contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 17(6), 1065-1072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-010-9268-5
    • Bekkers, S. C. A. M., Smulders, M. W., Passos, V. L., Leiner, T., Waltenberger, J., Gorgels, A. P. M., & Schalla, S. (2010). Clinical implications of microvascular obstruction and intramyocardial haemorrhage in acute myocardial infarction using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. European Radiology, 20(11), 2572-2578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-010-1849-9
    • Schalla, S., Bekkers, S. C., Dennert, R., van Suylen, R. J., Waltenberger, J., Leiner, T., Wildberger, J., Crijns, H. J., & Heymans, S. (2010). Replacement and reactive myocardial fibrosis in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: comparison of magnetic resonance imaging with right ventricular biopsy. European journal of heart failure, 12(3), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjhf/hfq004
    • Dennert, R. M., van Paassen, P., Schalla, S., Kuznetsova, T., Alzand, B. S. N., Staessen, J. A., Velthuis, S., Crijns, H. J., Tervaert, J. W. C., & Heymans, S. (2010). Cardiac Involvement in Churg-Strauss Syndrome. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 62(2), 627-634. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.27263
    • Dennert, R., Velthuis, S., Schalla, S., Eurlings, L. W., van Suylen, R.-J., van Paassen, P., Tervaert, J. W. C., Wolffs, P., Goossens, V. J., Bruggeman, C., Waltenberger, J., Crijns, H. J., & Heymans, S. (2010). Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy for patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and endomyocardial biopsy-proven high PVB19 viral load. Antiviral Therapy, 15(2), 193-201. https://doi.org/10.3851/IMP1516
    • Dennert, R., Velthuis, S., Westermann, D., Donker, D. W., Schalla, S., van Suylen, R.-J., & Heymans, S. (2010). Parvovirus-B19-associated fulminant myocarditis successfully treated with immunosuppressive and antiviral therapy. Antiviral Therapy, 15(4), 681-685. https://doi.org/10.3851/IMP1563