Dr. Hartmuth Bittner is a Lafayette, Indiana, heart surgeon who performs surgeries that repair aortic aneurysms. He repairs and replaces aortic, tricuspid, mitral, and pulmonary valves. His professional experience includes heart and lung transplantation, as well as the restoration of arterial flow employing off-and-on-pump coronary bypass. Also a University of Cincinnati Medical Center associate professor of surgery, he instructs within the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Hartmuth Bittner is a pioneer in lung transplantation in central Florida and introduced a program focused on that discipline at Florida Hospital in Orlando.

After completing undergraduate studies at the National Academy of Sports Science and Sports Medicine in Cologne, Germany, in the early 1980s, Dr. Bittner attended the University of Heidelberg Medical School. He authored research on “The function of the endocrine heart in trained and untrained individuals.” He subsequently attended the University of Leipzig, writing his PhD dissertation in 2004 on “The effect of brain death on donor thoracic organ function.”

Dr. Bittner served as endowed chair of thoracic transplantation while in Leipzig, taking an active role in the Eurotransplant International Foundation, which oversees transplantation across the continent. He maintains membership in the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and the German Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.

Dr. Hartmuth Bittner