Academic Studies

• 1978 - 1984
  Human medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH) 

Career History

• 1985
  Medical Assitant at Department of Cardiothoracic and
  Vascular Surgery of Hannover Medical School (Prof. Borst)
• 1986 - 1988                           
  Medical Assitant at Department of Surgery of German Heart Institute Berlin (Prof. Hetzer)
• 1988 -1990                            
  Medical Assitant at Department for General Surgery of Rudolf Virchow University Hospital,
  Berlin-Wedding Location (Prof. Weber)
• 1990 - 1991                           
  Medical Assitant at Department for Surgery of University Hospital Benjamin Franklin of Freie Universität Berlin (Head of Department: Prof. Dr. med. R. Haering)
• 1992 - 1998                           
  Assistant Medical Director of Department for Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery of University Hospital Benjamin Franklin of Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Rahmanzadeh)
• 1998 - 1999                           
  Chief physician of Department for Traumatology and Orthopaedics at Krankenhaus Doebeln, Saxony (Dr. Drogula GmbH)
• since 01.07.1999                   
  Chief physician of Department for Surgery, Accident Surgery and Sports Medicine, at Hubertus Protestant Hospital in Berlin (Academic teaching hospital of Freie Universität Berlin)
• since 02.11.1999                   
  Accident Insurance Consultant (Durchgangsarzt)
• since 01.01.2004                   
  Head of Centre for Endoprosthesis at Martin Luther Hospital, Berlin
• since 01.01.2007                   
  General Secretary of German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (DGPW)

Professional Qualifications

• 1986                                      
  Doctorate degree with an overall grade of SUMMA CUM LAUDE (excellent)
  Topic: Light and Electron Microscopy Study of Healing Process of Blood Vessel Walls of a Rabbit after Instrumental Occlusion of Arteries
• 31.03.1992                                      
  Surgeon
• 22.07.1994                                      
  Subdiscipline of Accident Surgery/ Trauma Surgery
• 02.09.1998                            
  additional title “Sports medicine”
• 17.06.2008                                      
  Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon within the speciality of Surgery
• 19.04.2010
  Professorial dissertation and license to teach the subject of laser medicine at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Topic: New approches on restitution of chondral tissue by selective heat input by means of Laser radiation 

Membership in Associations

• German Society of Surgery
• German Surgeons Association
• German Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU)
• Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Berlin Surgery Society (Association of Surgeons from Berlin and the Federal Sate of Brandenburg)
• Berlin Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Registered Society of German Orthopaedics Foot and Ankle Surgery 

Publications

• More than 90 scientific works published in national and international journals
• 4 book chapters
• More than 100 relevant papers presented at national and international conferences
• 43 poster presentations within the period from 1992 until 2004 

Awards   October 1993 poster award granted at the Annual Meeting of German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   November 1993 poster award granted by German Society of Trauma Surgery   October 1994 poster award granted at the Annual Meeting of German Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   Certificate of Attendance Indiana, USA, May 1999, Philadelphia, USA, May 1999, Warsaw, Indiana, USA, May 1999