Dr. Beckendorf is a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology with a focus on sports cardiology and cardiovascular health in athletes. With expertise in the physiological impacts of sports on growing athletes, She supports athletic performance through targeted health examinations and preventive sports medicine.
Dr. Beckendorf obtained a medical license and doctorate from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, completing the latter in 2009. Board-certified in internal medicine and cardiology since 2015, and is specialized in cardiovascular preventive medicine (DGPR) in 2017 and acquired an additional designation in sports medicine in 2019.
She is an active member of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK), the German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention (DGSP), the German Society for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases (DGPR), and the Professional Association of German Internists (BDI).
Prof. Dr. Fabian Knebel is the Head of the Department for Internal Medicine II with a focus on cardiology at Sana Hospital Lichtenberg, which is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Professor Knebel specializes in internal medicine and cardiology, and also acquired extensive additional qualifications in the fields of interventional cardiology and cardiac insufficiency of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK). The Department for Internal Medicine II provides cardio-pulmonary function diagnostics at the highest level, four places equipped with high-end echocardiography machines and three-dimensional ultrasound, contrast enhanced echocardiography and deformation imaging. In addition, the state-of-the-art echo lab is certified by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Furthermore, together with the emergency department, it is certified as a Cardiac Arrest Center (CAC). He is currently co-speaker of the working group on cardiac imaging of the DGK and speaker of the imaging cluster of the German society of Cardiology.