1984 Degree course in chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1984–1990 Degree courses in human medicine, University of the Saarland in Homburg (Saar), Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, University of Texas in San Antonio, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1991 Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (FMGEMS)
1991 Took degree of Doctor of Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: title of thesis, On Differential Therapy of the Colon (supervisory: Professor Ch. Gebhardt)
Professional career
1990–1992 Intern at the Surgical Clinic and Polyclinic of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1992 Licence to practise medicine
1992-1998 Specialist training at the University Surgical Clinic Erlangen (Director: Professor F.P. Gall, since 1 Jan. 1995: Professor W. Hohenberger)
1998-2002 Practising surgeon at the University Surgical Clinic Erlangen
2000 Postgraduate thesis: The complete arterialisation of the portal vein – effect on function, morphology and regeneration following hemihepatectomy in a pig (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
2002-2007 Senior physician at the Clinic of Abdominal, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery (Director: Professor J. Hauss), Leipzig University Hospital
2002 Specialist in abdominal surgery
2004 Specialist in thoracic surgery
2006 Special Professor of Surgery
2006 Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
2007 Director of the certified Cooperative Colonic Cancer Centre for the Leipzig Region
2008-2010 Chairman of the Operating Centre and Principal Physician of the Clinic for Abdominal, Thoracic and Tumour Surgery at the Albertinen-Krankenhaus Hamburg, Head of the certified Albertinen Colonic Centre
2011-2013 Medical Director of the Surgical Clinic II at the Alfried Krupp Hospital of Essen-Steele, Head of the Specialist Centres for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery and Coloproctology
2013–the present Principal Physician at the Clinic for General, Vascular and Abdominal Surgery at the Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Berlin-Spandau
Membership of associations
German Surgical Society
Surgical Working Group for Transplant Surgery (CAT)
Surgical Working Group for Quality Assurance (CAQ)
Surgical Working Group for Oncology (CAO)
German Society for General and Abdominal Surgery (DGAV)
German Society for Thoracic Surgery (DGT)
Association of Bavarian Surgeons
North-West German Surgical Association
Association of German Surgeons (BDC)
Working Group on Liver Metastasis (ALM)
Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig
American College of Surgeons
College of Principal Hospital Surgeons
German Society for Abdominal and General Surgery
Reviewer for The Wellcome Trust and Medical Science Monitor
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
Reviewer for Journal of Medical Case Reports
Colonic Consultant, Oncological and Pancreatic Centres of the German Cancer Society (OnkoZert)
Medical Board of the RobinAid Foundation
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