Current Occupation:   Head of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Hand Surgery, Martin-Luther-Hospital Berlin

2013 Board Certification: Hand Surgery

2012 Postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation, qualification by means of postdoctoral thesis for a teaching career in higher education)

2012 Attending Physician, Department of Plastic Surgery, Burn Trauma Centre, Hand Surgery, Reference Centre for Soft Tissue Tumours, BG Trauma Centre Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

2012 Attending Physician, BG Trauma Centre Ludwigshafen, Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Trauma Unit, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany (Prof. M. Lehnhardt)

2010 Board Certification: Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery

2006 Doctoral Thesis

2004 – 2010 Resident Physician, Department of Plastic Surgery, Burn Trauma Centre, Hand Surgery, Reference Centre for Soft Tissue Tumours, BG Trauma Centre Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (Prof. H.-U. Steinau)

1997 to 2004 Medical School, University of Frankfurt, Witten/Herdecke, Germany and Sheffield, England and Sydney, Australia

Since 2012 Head of Laboratory of Experimental and Clinical Microcirculation, Department of Plastic Surgery, Burn Trauma Centre, Hand Surgery, Reference Centre for Soft Tissue Tumo

2011 to 2012 Head of Laboratory of Experimental and Clinical Microcirculation, BG Trauma Centre Ludwigshafen, Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Trauma Unit, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany

Publications

More than 130 publications in international and domestic journals and more than 150 lectures and poster presentations

Reviewer for several international scientific journals

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS                    

• Cicatrix Care Award 2014 for the presentation of a newly developed prone positioning bed
• Award for best presentation: 32nd Annual Meeting DAV, Arosa, Switzerland,  January 2014
• Julius Springer Award 2013: “Most Downloaded Publication”, 2013 Munich, Germany
• Cicatrix Study Award 2012: “Extracorporeal Shock Wave Treatment in Burns”
• Poster award: “Acceleration of Angiogenesis due to Extracorporeal Shock Wave Treatment in Burns”, 15th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Wound Healing (DGfW), Kassel, Germany 2012
• “PharmaMar Scientific Award: Soft Tissue Sarcoma”, 2010 (10,000 €)
• Faculty Award for Clinical Research 2009, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• Young investigator award "Quantitative assessment of microcirculatory disturbances and leukocyte/endothelium interaction in burns: a novel model", European Burns Association, Bergen, Norway 2003
• Award for best presentation: “The Impact of Topical Antiseptics on Skin Microcirculation”, 33rd Annual Meeting of the German Society of Plastic Surgeons (VDPC), Heidelberg, Germany

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• German Society of Surgery (DGCh)
• German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (DGPRÄC)
• German Society for Wound Healing (DGfW)
• German Society of Hand Surgery (DGH)
• Interplast Germany e.V.