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Hassina Baraki is a cardiac surgeon and senior physician of the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the University Medical Center Göttingen. She is specialized in minimal invasive cardiac surgery aiming to develop and apply non-invasive surgical methods focusing on reconstructive valve surgery via small incisions and beating heart procedures without using the heart-lung-machine. Myocardial restoration with artificial cardiac tissue based on tissue engineering with induced pluripotent stem cells is one of her research fields. Further research topics are analysing risk factors which cause postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients.