Ulrich Sigwart was born on 9 March 1941 in Wuppertal, Germany, the fifth child of August R Sigwart, a Bayer Industries scientist, and his wife Elizabeth.
10 Facts About Ulrich Sigwart
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Ulrich Sigwart was an infant when his father died under suspicious circumstances in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Ulrich Sigwart's family has its origins in Tubingen where several members played an important role at the local university.
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Ulrich Sigwart was raised by his mother and older siblings, at first in the Black Forest and later towards the north of Germany.
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Ulrich Sigwart received his medical degree in 1967 from the University of Munster before gaining his MD that same year from the University of Freiburg.
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Ulrich Sigwart's internship was completed in a hospital in Lorrach, Germany, in 1968.
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Ulrich Sigwart moved to the US and completed a residency at Framingham Union Hospital, Framingham, Massachusetts, between 1968 and 1971.
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Ulrich Sigwart was appointed junior consultant at the Gollwitzer-Meier Institute in Bad Oeynhausen in Germany in 1972, and the following year was recruited to set up an invasive cardiology program, where he studied angiography.
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Ulrich Sigwart's work revolutionised angioplasty making it predictable, significantly improving the outcome and offering a chance to overcome the problem of abrupt closure and recurrence.
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Ulrich Sigwart's work provided him with an opportunity to observe the outcomes and indeed the shortcomings resulting from stent therapy.