Professor Emeritus
University of Alberta
University of Alberta
Harald Becher MD, PhD – short CV
1994 - 1997 Director of the Specialist Training Program in Cardiology of the University Hospital in Bonn, Germany
2000 - 2001 Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Bonn
2002 - 2010 Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; Director Echocardiography, Lead Non invasive Imaging
2006 - 2010 Professor of Cardiac Ultrasound, University of Oxford
2010 – 3/2024 Professor of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada
2013 – 3/2024 Director of the Alberta Cardiovascular and Stroke Research Centre
4/2024 – present Emeritus Professor and locum cardiologist, University of Alberta, Canada
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Major activities of our clinical research teams are the development and validation of new ultrasound technologies for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease as well as supporting clinical trials with advanced ultrasound equipment for cardiac and vascular imaging.
Our team was involved in designing and performing the clinical trials using ultrasound enhancing agents which created the evidence for the recent recommendations of the American and European societies of Echocardiography. Together with the German cardiologist Peter Helfen I wrote the first textbook of Contrast Echocardiography published by Springer/Nature in 2019. I am one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Echocardiography. Because of my research I became member of the writing committees for clinical recommendations of the American and European Societies of Echocardiography. I have been a consultant for manufacturers of ultrasound scanners and ultrasound enhancing agents.
Our research team has been involved in several clinical studies on early detection and quantification of atherosclerosis using new ultrasound imaging tools. Because of our research on atherosclerosis imaging, I became member of a committee of the American Society of Echocardiography to write a consensus statement for ultrasound imaging to detect early stages of atherosclerosis to be published in 2020.
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
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