Department of Intensive Care and Weaning (148)

Curriculum vitae

• 1989 – 1991 Preclinical education at the University of Cologne
• 1991 – 1995 Clinical education at the University of Cologne
• 1995 Practical year in Pediatrics (elective) at the Department of Pediatry, Children's Hospital Amsterdamer Str. in Cologne
• 1995 Practical year in the field of Internal Medicine at the District Hospital Gummersbach
• 1995 Practical year in the field of Surgery at the University Hospital Boston, USA
• 1996 Partial approbation (license to practice medicine)
• 1996 – 1999 Medical Intern and Assistant Physician at the District Hospital Gummersbach, Department of Internal Medicine  Priv. Doz. Dr. med K. Grimmel
• 1998 Full approbation, American State Examination
• 1998 Recognition of the Doctoral Thesis at the University of Cologne
• 1999 – 2002 Residency in Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
• 2002 Award for best graduate resident of the 2002 Graduation Year, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
• August 2002 Board certification in Internal Medicine in the USA (American Board of Internal Medicine)
• 2002 – 2007 Assistant Physician and Research Associate at the Specialist Hospital Grafschaft Abbey (Director Prof. Dr. med. D. Köhler)
• May 2004 Board certification in Internal Medicine
• November 2005 Board certification in Pneumology
• Since 2006, Teaching at the Philipps University of Marburg
• August 2007 Senior Physician at the Sleep Laboratory and Home Respiration, Specialist Hospital Kloster Grafschaft
• December 2009 Board certification in Somnology
• July 2013 Head of the Department of Pneumology I (Intensive Care and Weaning, Early Rehabilitation after Long-term Ventilation), Specialist Hospital Kloster Grafschaft, Schmallenberg
• 2013 Habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg

Qualifications

• Author of the S2 Guideline "Noninvasive and Invasive Ventilation as a Therapy of Chronic Respiratory Failure" of the German Society of Pneumology (DGP)
• Author and member of the core working group of the S2 Guideline "Prolonged Degradation of Respirator" of the German Society of Pneumology (DGP)
• Member and author of the Critical Care HERMES Task Force Group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• Board member of the German Interdisplinary Society of Home Mechanical Ventilation (DIGAB)