Specialist in internal medicine and rheumatology
Manual therapy, geriatrics
| 1987 - 1992 | Medical studies at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg |
| 1992 - 1993 | Final clinical year: children’s hospital at Klinikum Aschaffenburg, surgical university hospital Würzburg Medical university hospital Würzburg |
| 1994 - 2001 | Resident in the internal medicine departments of the Stiftsklinik Augustinum Bad Windsheim and the Klinikum Ansbach |
| 1998 | Doctorate at the University of Würzburg |
| 2001 | Board certification in internal medicine |
| 2002-2004 | Resident at the rheumatology hospital Bad Abbach |
| 2003 | Additional qualification in chiropractic (manual medicine) |
| 2004 | Subspecialty certification in rheumatology (internal medicine) |
| 2004-2005 | Resident in the department of internal medicine and rheumatology at the Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg |
| 2005-2009 | Senior physician in the departments of internal medicine and rheumatology at the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Hagen-Haspe and of rheumatology and geriatrics at the Herz-Jesu-Krankenhaus Fulda |
| 2008 | Additional qualification in geriatrics |
| 1995 | Qualification in emergency medical services |
| 2006 | Additional qualification in emergency medicine |
| 1995-2009 | Emergency physician |
| 2009-2014 | Head of the department of geriatric rehabilitation at the Asklepios Gesundheitszentrum Aidenbach |
| 2010-2012 | Part-time distance learning programme, Master of Health Business Administration, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 2013 | Additional qualification in medical quality management |
| 01.10.2014 | Partner in the Gemeinschaftspraxis am Rennplatz in Regensburg |
Areas of activity
Membership of professional societies
German Society of Geriatrics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geriatrie)
Working group for the promotion of geriatrics in Bavaria (AFGiB)
Lecturing
Since 2009 organiser of the series “Aldersbacher Gespräche”
Since 2010 speaker at training courses of the Bavarian Medical Association on geriatric topics
Authorisation to train doctors
Since 2009 authorised to train doctors in internal medicine and geriatrics (1 year each)
Lectures and publications
Lectures (selection)
Since 2009 organiser of the series “Aldersbacher Gespräche”:
November 2009 Aldersbacher Gespräche
- Problem areas in geriatrics
November 2010 Aldersbacher Gespräche
- Rheumatism in old age – what is different? Drug therapies for inflammatory rheumatic diseases
November 2011 Aldersbacher Gespräche
- Non-drug therapies for inflammatory and degenerative rheumatic diseases
November 2012 Aldersbacher Gespräche
- Ambient Assisted Living – the future of ageing?
November 2013 Aldersbacher Gespräche
- Emergencies in geriatrics
November 2014 Aldersbacher Gespräche (requested)
- Ethics at the end of life
September 2012 (Weiden) and September 2013 (Rosenheim), training conference of the agbn (working group of Bavarian emergency physicians)
- Emergency care of geriatric patients
May 2014 RETTMobil Fulda
- Special patient groups in emergency medical services – geriatric patients
Publications
Geriatric intervention and the importance of technological developments
Master’s thesis, part-time MHBA programme, June 2012
Importance and influence of rheumatic diseases on delayed recovery of geriatric patients after an acute illness
Geriatrie-Report, issue 03-2013, volume 8