Sabine Klaassen is a pediatric cardiologist specialized in cardiomyopathies and genetics at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. At the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of Charité and the Max-Delbrück-Center she leads the research group “Clinical Cardiogenetics”.
Sabine Klaassen studied medicine at the Free University University Berlin. She was a research fellow at Children´s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, and at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Great Britain. She is Associate Professor at the Charité, Senior physician at the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, and Co-speaker of the DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Disease) partner site Berlin.
Professional Societies: Member, Association of European Pediatric Cardiology (AEPC), German Cardiac Society (DGK), German Society of Pediatric Cardiology (DGPK).
Activities in Writing Committees: German recommendations on molecular diagnostics of CV disease, which also include Congenital Heart Defects (Position paper endorsed by DGK and DGPK), and the 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies.