Main areas of research:
• Tumor Surgery
• Transplant Medicine
• Intensive Care
• Tissue Banks
• Body Material in Research
• ACE Inhibitors
Work Experience:
• Since 2013, Medical Director of the Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU)
• 2007-2012 the Deputy Medical Director of the Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU)
• Since 2002, Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Surgery on the Klinikum Großhadern of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2000-2002 Medical Director of the University Hospital Regensburg
• 1996-2002 Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Surgery the University Hospital Regensburg
Awards:
• German Federal Cross of Merit
• Since 2013, Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Membership:
• 2013 President of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH)
• 2006 Conference President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency medicine (DIVI)
• 2005-2006 Chairman of the German Society for Coloproctology
• 2003-2006 Chairman of the Surgical Research Section of the German Society for Surgery
• Conference President of the German Transplant Society (DTG)