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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Minimally invasive surgeries (referred to as keyhole surgeries)
  • Minimally invasive resection of mediastinal tumours such as thymomas
  • Video-assisted thoracoscopy with anatomic lung resection (referred to as VAT lobectomy)

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

1988 – 1996  Studies of human medicine, Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg; Germany
1996 – 1997
Senior House Officer, Department of Surgery, ThoraxKlinik Heidelberg
1997
Proof of qualification in «emergency service», MEDICA, Baden-Baden
1997 – 1999
Senior House Officer, Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen; Switzerland
1999 – 2000
Senior House Officer, Department of Trauma Surgery, Albert Ludwig University Freiburg
2000 – 2001 Senior House Officer, Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen; Switzerland
2000 – 2001
Member of the management, Department of Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Schaffhausen; Switzerland
2001
Senior House Officer, Department of Surgery, ThoraxKlinik, University Hospital Heidelberg
2002
Surgeon, Baden-Württemberg Medical Association
2002
Participant in the HEICUMED Lecturer Training II (HEICUMED – Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale), Faculty of Medicine, Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg; Germany
Since 2003  Supervision (investigator) and management (principal investigator) of clinical trials at the ThoraxKlinik, University Hospital Heidelberg
2003 – 2013
Trainer/Lecturer in the HEICUMED Lecturer Training, Faculty of Medicine, Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg; Germany
2004
Certification of the speciality «thoracic surgery», Baden-Württemberg Medical Association
2004
Appointment as Consultant, Department of Surgery, ThoraxKlinik, University Hospital Heidelberg
Since 2005
Module leader (thoracic surgery module) in the surgery block of the Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale, Ruprecht Karl University, Heidelberg; Germany
2011
Member of the Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Working Group of the DGT
2012
DRG Representative, Department of Surgery, ThoraxKlinik Heidelberg
2012
Co-editor of the «E-Learning Platform for Thoracic Surgery» of the German Society of Thoracic Surgery (DGT)
2015
Appointment as Senior Consultant, ThoraxKlinik, University Hospital Heidelberg
2015
Head of Thoracic Surgery Section, Helios Hospital Pforzheim
Since 2016
Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Helios Hospital Pforzheim

Extra information

Awards:
06/1999 — Poster award of the Swiss Society of Surgery (SGC), 86th Annual Congress of the SGC in Lugano; Switzerland

Memberships

06/2004 — German Society of Thoracic Surgery (DGT)

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