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Christina Unterberg-Buchwald is a professor of cardiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany. She received her M.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munic, Germany, and underwent postgraduate training in the department of cardiology and pneumology, UMG. She combines clinical work and studies in experimental and clinicial cardiology. She worked on mechanisms of restenosis in coronary arteries and device therapy in cardiac arrhythmias. Since 2007 she is working in cardiac imaging, mostly cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac computertomography. She is an expert in cardiac MRI, with focus on interventional MRI. Her research work now focuses on applications of real-time MRI, interventional cardiac MRI, especially endomyocardial biopsy and aortic stenting.