Curriculum Vitae and Scientific Career

• 1967–1973 Medical studies in Bonn, Grenoble and Freiburg
• 1973–1975 Medical assistant in Freiburg
• 1975 Licence to practice medicine and conferral of the doctorate “Dr. med.”
• 1975–1977 Scholarship from the “DFG”, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
• 1977 specialty training at the center for internal medicine at the Medical University Hannover
• 1984 Specialty “internal medicine”
• 1984 Subspecialty “endocrinology”
• 1986 Subspecialty “pneumology”
• 1997 Additional subspecialty “allergology”
• 1986 Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) “internal medicine”
• 1986 tenured professor
• 1986–1997 Senior physician, intensive care unit of internal medicine
• 1987 Together with Dr. A. Haverich implementation of the first lung transplant program in Germany (Medical University Hannover)
• 1990–1997 Implementation of the first CF centre for adults in Germany  together with Dr. med. Christina Smaczny
• 1997 Head of the Dept. of  Pneumology/Allergology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
• 1997 Leader of the CF ambulance for adults Frankfurt/Main
• since 1998 Member of the Board of “Mukoviszidose e.V.” (CF patient organization)

Special interests:

• Cystic Fibrosis in adults
• Rare lung diseases
• Lung carcinoma
• Ventilator therapy and intensive care medicine

I am married and have seven children.

Frankfurt, 1st of November 2010