Extern in Internal Medicine at Lahey Clinic & Deaconess / Mass General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Resident in Surgery, Anesthesiology & Internal Medicine, Army Hospital Munich (Surgery and  Anesthesiology, Intensive Care) and City Hospital (Internal Medicine & Cardiology), Munich, Germany

Associate Professor & Director of Interventional Cardiology at St.Louis University Medical Center, St.Louis, MO., USA

Associate at Klinikum Bogenhausen, Division of Cardiology & Pneumology, Teaching Hospital of Technical University of Munich,Germany

Appointment Full Professor of Medicine / Cardiology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Senior Associate  Heart Center Bogenhausen, Munich, Division of Cardiology & Pneumology, Munich. Responsible for Interventional Cardiology and innovative treatment modalities

First textbook on coronary angioplasty („practice of coronary angioplasty“), editor and author or coauthor of more than 100 original publications, book chapters and lectures, with focus on Coronary Artery Disease & Interventional Cardiology, interventional treatment of complex vascular disease, carotid stenting, valve disease and secondary prevention

One of longest experiences worldwide in minimal invasive cardiovascular diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for coronary and complex vascular disease, including carotid stenting, aortic stent grafts, PFO /ASD catheter occlusion and percutaneous aortic valve implantation

Postinterventional care, secondary and primary prevention, second opinion and consulting prior to cardiac surgery or catheter interventions. General cardiovascular diagnosis, therapy and consultation

 1983

Fellow of the German Society of Cardiology
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)

Director of international live demonstration courses Munich, Heart Center Bogenhausen and Beijing, China

Member of national and international editorial boards, scientific committees, trial steering committees and faculties of national & international symposia (e.g.TCT in Washington, USA, Invited lecturer in National Heart Institute Washington DC, USA, Director of MEET congress, Marseille, France, Chairman or member of faculty at Interventional cardiology Congress in China, India, Singapore, Egypt and in various institutes in Europe.

Principal investigator & coinvestigator in numerous trials in interventional cardiology with publications in Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine

First in man studies

Device innovations in cardiovascular technology Holder of international patents in medical (cardiovascular) technology

Consultant to medical technology industry
Consultant in patent litigation

Member of scientific advisory boards of medical technology industries