Managing Director, Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery University Hospital Würzburg April 2007 - Today (10 years 5 months) Executive assignments, assignments and support, training of assistants, wet-lab leader VAD and HTX program. Oberarzt Westdeutsche Herzzentrum, University of Duisburg-Essen May 2003 - March 2007 (3 years 11 months) Line HTX, LTX office line section rhythm surgery Georg-August-University Goettingen doctor Georg-August-University Goettingen 1990 - 2002 (12 years) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Research Fellow Cedars-Sinai Medical Center June 1993 - December 1994 (1 year 7 months) Heart Transplant Reasearch - clinical and lab

Special fields: Total arterial revascularization as OPCAB, right anterior thoracotomy, mitral valve repair, and cardiac insufficiency surgery