Dr. med. Kourosh Taghavi

Specialist in gynecology and obstetrics

Dr. med. Kourosh Taghavi

Current positions

Founder and head of the Center for Surgical Gynecology and the Rhineland Pelvic Floor Center in Düsseldorf

 Operational activities in:

  • EVK Mettmann
  • Marienhospital Düsseldorf
  • Luisenhospital Düsseldorf

Memberships

  • Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Urogynäkologie und plastische Beckenbodenrekonstruktion (AGUB)
  • Deutsche Kontinenz Gesellschaft (DKG)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Senologie (DGS)/li>
  • Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für gynäkologische Onkologie (AGO)
  • Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Zervixpathologie und Kolposkopie)
  • Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für gynäkologische und geburtshilfliche Endoskopie (AGE)
  • Berufsverband der Frauenärzte (BVF)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin (DEGUM)
  • Deutsche Menopause Gesellschaft (DMG)
  • Düsseldorfer Gynäkologen e.V. (DÜFF)

Personal details

Born in 1971 as the eldest son of Dr. Masoud Taghavi and Dipl. Ing. Giti Mirmiran.
Father of three children.

Professional career

  • 1999
  • Internship doctor at Bethanien Hospital Moers
  • 2001
  • 2001 – 2005

    Assistant doctor at Bethanien Hospital Moers, Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Wolfram Niedner

  • 2004

    Head of the Urogynecology Section (advice center certified by the German Continence Society)

  • 2005

    Specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, Nordrhein Medical Association

  • 2005

    Appointment as clinical and surgical senior physician at the Women's Clinic at Bethanien Hospital Moers, Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Wolfram Niedner

  • 2006

    Head of the Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Center, Linker Niederrhein (advice center certified by the German Continence Society)

  • 2006

    Appointment as deputy head of the certified Euregio Breast Center, Linker Niederrhein, Moers/Goch/Nijmegen

  • 2008

    Appointment as Deputy Head Physician of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at Bethanien Krankenhaus Moers, Head: Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Osmers

  • 2008

    Appointment as head of the certified Euregio Breast Center, Linker Niederrhein, Moers/Goch/Nijmegen

  • 2010

    
Appointment as Chief Physician of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, SANA Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • 2011

    Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee at SANA Hospital Düsseldorf

  • 2013

    Humanitarian aid mission with gynecological operations in the Kingdom of Bhutan

  • 2013 until today

    Foundation of the Center for Surgical Gynecology and the Rhineland Pelvic Floor Center, Düsseldorf

University education

  • 10/1991 - 03/1992

    Voluntary service with the DRK at St. Vinzenz Hospital, Düsseldorf

  • 04/1992

    Commencement of studies in human medicine at the University of Hamburg

  • 01/1993

    Transfer to the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

  • 1994 - 1998

    Student tutor at the Institute of Pathology and the Institute of Anatomy

  • 10/1998 - 09/1999

    Practical year (PJ) at Gerresheim Hospital, Düsseldorf
    Elective subject: Gynecology and obstetrics
    Head: Prof. Dr. med. W. Audretsch and Prof. Dr. med. Albrecht

  • 11/1999

    3rd state examination at the Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf

School education

  • 1991

    Humboldt-Gymnasium, Düsseldorf
    General higher education entrance qualification (Abitur)

Shape

Operating portfolio

Pelvic floor and incontinence surgery

  • Proven and individually tailored treatment
  • Treatment of all forms of female urinary incontinence 
  • Treatment of all forms of pelvic floor weakness up to organ prolapse (prolapse of the pelvic organs)
  • All classic and modern vaginal and abdominal surgical procedures to restore pelvic floor integrity
  • Management of short and long-term complications in POP surgery (pelvic organ prolapse) with existing previous operations and recurrences
  • Minimally invasive therapy approaches, such as
  • Implantation of adjustable suburethral tubules
  • Implacement of bulking agents
  • Laparoscopic and open cervico/colposacropexy
  • Laparoscopic and open colposuspension n. Burch

General gynecological surgery

  • All methods of hysterectomy 
  • Abdominal, vaginal and endoscopic

Oncologic surgery

  • Multivisceral debulking surgery for ovarian cancer with abdominal peritonectomy
  • Pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy
  • Sentinel node biopsy using ICG and technitium
  • Radical hysterectomy (Piver I to III)

Endometrial carcinoma

  • Open and endoscopic treatment with endoscopic sentinel lymphadenectomy (soft lymph nodes) using ICG and systematic lymphadenectomy

Vulvar carcinoma

  • Partial and total vulvectomy
  • Sentinel node and  complete inguinofemoral lymphadenectomy
  • Plastic reconstruction with stationary swing flaps
Operatives Portfolio