| Professional Training and Professional Career: |
| March 1997 – July 1998 — Internship, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leipzig, Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| August 1998 — Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leipzig |
| September 1999 — Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| October 1999 – March 2003 — Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| April 2003 — Neurosurgical Board certification, Landesärztekammer Hessen, Frankfurt/Main |
| April 2003 – August 2004 — Attending, Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| September 2004 — Consultant, Faculty Member |
| August 2007 – August 2008 — Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main |
| 1 September 2008 – 28 February 2013 — Head of the Department of vascular, functional and pediatric Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Clinics, Helios Klinikum Erfurt |
| 15.12.2008 — Program Director, Residency Training Program |
| 1.3.2013 — Co-Chairmen, Department of Neurosurgery, Helios Klinikum Erfurt |
| Medical Education: |
| February – March 1994 — Hospitation Department of Clinical Neuroscience der University of Edinburgh, Prof. J. D. Miller |
| March 1994 – September 1998 — Graduated magna cum laude (M.D.Thesis) |
| August 2000 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Amsterdam. «Vascular Diseases of the CNS» |
| August 2001 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Prag. «Brain Tumors and Pediatric Neurosurgery» |
| February 2002 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Bonn. «Functional Neurosurgery, Head Injury» |
| November – December 2002 — Hospitation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Würzburg, Prof. Dr. N. Sörensen |
| February 2003 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Budapest. «Spine and peripheral nerves» |
| Postgraduate Training: |
| February 2004 — European Primary Examination in Neurosurgery, Budapest |
December 2003 — Advanced AO Spine Course, Davos «Operative treatment of degenerative spine diseases»
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| July 2004 — Habilitation and Venia legendi (PhD in Neurosurgery), Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main |
| March 2006 — 7th Workshop: Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery, Bologna, Italy |
| September – November 2006 — Clinical Fellowship, Duke University North Carolina, Prof. Dr. Allan Friedman and Prof. Dr. Takanori Fukushima |
| December 2006 — Advanced AO Spine Course, Davos in Davos «Operative treatment of spinal trauma und complex tumours» |
| January 2007 — 7th Annual International Congress on Cerebral Revascularization, St Louis, MO, USA |
| October 2009 — Appointment as a Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main |
