Professional Career:

1991 - 1999
Student of Medicine at Ruhr-University Bochum;
Study and Research Stays in North- and South America, Australia and Asia

1998 - 1999
Intership at Hospital de la Santa Cruz i Sant Pau, Barcelona

1996 - 2002
Doctorate at Institute for Tropcial Medicine Tübingen in Cooperation with Pontifica Universidade Católica RS, Porto Alegre, Brasil, Titel: „Appraisal of T.cruzi-specific PCR as diagnostis tool“

2000 - 2003
Resident at the Academic Teaching Hospital of University Witten-Herdecke:
Internal Medicine, Interdisziplinary Intensive Care Unit and Surgery

2002 - 2005
Qualification Emergency Medicine, continous attendance as rescue doctor

2003 - 2004
Assistant Physician in General Practice, Cologne

2005
Certification as Consultant of General Medicine

2005
Resident Internal Medicine, St. Marien-Hospital, Cologne

Since June 2005
Collaboration with IOZK