• Specialist in Internal Medicine/ CardiologyAdjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig
• h-care partner doctor

• 1982 A-levels
• 1984 - 1990 Study of human medicine, Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster and Texas Heart Institute Houston/Texas
• 1990 State Medical Examinations
• 1991 Doctorate: "The effect of intravenously applied amiodarone on stimulus-induced ventricular cardiac dysrhythmias in the early necrosis phase of acute myocardial infarction" Medical Clinic and Outpatients' Clinic, Internal Medicine C, Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster
• 7/1990 - 4/1992 Medical Clinic B/C, Municipal Clinics Wuppertal Barmen (Prof. Dr H. Gülker)
• 6/1992 - 1/1998 Medical Clinic and Outpatients' Clinic, Internal Medicine C (Cardiology and Angiology), Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster (Prof. Dr G. Breithardt)
• 1997 Specialist doctor's examination in internal medicine
• 2/1998 - 3/1998 Visiting physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
• 4/1998 - 9/2000 Senior Physician, Clinic for Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Cardiac Centre, University of Leipzig
• 1998 Post-doctoral thesis: "Experimental and clinical investigations for catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in structurally normal hearts ("idiopathic left ventricular tachycardias") and in dilatative cardiomyopathy"
• 1999 Specialist doctor's examination in cardiology (specialty)
• 2003 Appointment as Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig
• 10/2000 - 08/2006 Medical Director, Department of Rhythmology, Cardiac Centre, University of Leipzig

• Rudolf-Thauer Posterpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Herz- und Kreislaufforschung 1994 für die Präsentation "Elektrophysiologischer Befunde und Katheterablation bei idiopathischer linksventrikulärer Tachykardie"
  60. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Herz- und Kreislaufforschung, Mannheim 7.-9.4.1994
• "Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich" Preis 1999 für Klinische Lehre an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig
• Gastprofessur der Dalian Medical University, Volksrepublik China; Verleihung 22.8.2001
  

• German Society for Cardiological and Cardiovascular Research
• German Society for Internal Medicine
• European Society for Cardiology
• Nucleus member of the "Arrhythmia" working group of the DGK
• Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
• Editorial Board of the Heart Rhythm Journal

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