Rhythmology

• Specialist in Internal Medicine/ Cardiology
• Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig

Core competence

Employed doctor

Center/Institute

Curriculum vitae

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

Awards

• 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
  

Professional Societies and Associations

• 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

Languages

• German
• English