Dr. med. Dilek Gürsoy was the first woman in Europe to implant an artificial heart and is now one of the best known heart surgeons in Germany. As a heart surgeon and artificial heart expert, she has many years of experience as a manager in clinics. Dilek Gürsoy is the head of a private practice for heart surgery and works as a consultant surgeon in Germany and abroad. Dilek Gürsoy is now also becoming active as an entrepreneur, she is CEO and Founder of GANÎ Clinic and wants to set up her own clinic. Her goal is to offer accessible, top-class medicine where innovation and humanity work together. In 2019, she was voted Doctor of the Year by the German Medical Club. Many well-known media outlets have already reported on her impressive research work on the new generation of artificial heart systems. Among other things, she was on the cover of Forbes magazine. Dilek Gürsoy is involved in numerous voluntary projects to give other people a chance to develop, to support young people and to empower women. Dilek Gürsoy was born in Neuss in 1976 as one of three children of a Turkish guest worker family.