Management
Dr. Björkegren is the founder, chair of the board and main shareholder of CGN. Since 2013, Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY US and Associate Professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Between 2010- 2015, Björkegren was professor in Molecular Pathology at the Department of Medical Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Head of the Heart Surgery Clinic at Tartu University Hospital. He is responsible for building new biobanks in CGN. Areas of my surgical expertise involve CABG, OPCAB, MIDCAB, aortic and mitral valve repair, aortic valve and aortic surgery via ministernotomy, aortic surgery and AF surgery. Member of European Association of Cardio-Thoracic. SInce 2011, Dr. Arno Ruusalepp is member of the Board in CGN.