About Doctor
1975 – 1980 - Medical studies at Heinrich-Heine University Medical School Düsseldorf
1981 - Research Quarter from January to March in Kenia, East Africa. Ethnomedical Study, sponsored by the German Research Foundation
1980 – 1981 - internship at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and Middlesex Hospital, London, UK
1982 – 1983 - Residency I in Neurosurgery at the Central Hospital of the German Armed Forces in Koblenz, FRG, Chairman: Flottenarzt Dr. med. J. Mletzko
1983 - VQE Exam. Doctoral Thesis by the Medical Faculty of Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
1984 – 1985 - Residency II in Neurosurgery at the Neuropathological Institute of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Medical School
1985 - FLEX Exam, State of New York, USA
1986 - 1990 - III Residency in Neurosurgery at the Neurosurgical Department of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Medical School
1987 - Research project sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North-Rhine Westfalia.
1990 – 1991 - Fellowship by the May-Foundation, Residency IV in Neurosurgery as Fellow in Neurosurgery Mayo-Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
1992 - PhD (Habilitation)
1993 – 1994 - Consultant at the Neurosurgical Department
1995 – 1998 - Vice Chairman at the Neurosurgical Department
1995 – 1996 - Coworker in the Research Program A12 in the Research Network No.194 of the German Research Foundation
1996 – 1998 - Co-Investigator in the clinical Study GTI-0115
1998 - present - Professor and Chairman of the Neurosurgical Department of the Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, FRG, Associate Professor (apl. Prof.) at the Humboldt-University Berlin, FRG
2000 - present - Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery in the MEOCLINIC International Private Clinic
2002 - present - Member of the Vacular Section of American Association of Neurological Surgeons
2003 - present - Delegate of DGNC in World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
2004 - present - Chairman of Mayo Alumni German Speaking League
2005 - present - Coordiantor Spine Group Helios