Director of the Departement of Cardiology, Pneumology and Intensive Care, Academic General Hospital Munich – Hospital Neuperlach, Munich (Germany) 1982 – 1989 Study of Medicine at Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. 1989 M.D. 1990 Doctoral thesis. 1990 – 1991 Postdoc award from Max-Planck-Society for a 2-year research fellowship at Max-Planck-Institut for Experimental Cardiology in Bad Nauheim. 1992 – 1993 Resident at the Johann Gutenberg-University Hospital of Mainz, II. Medical Clinic. 1993 Fellowship at the Department of Electrophysiology at Kerckhoff Clinic, Max Planck Clinic, Bad Nauheim. 1994 – 1996 Resident at the Medical School of the University Hospital of Essen. 1993 Graduation for Sports Medicine, 1996 Graduation for Internal Medicine, 1998 Graduation for Cardiology. European Cardiologist (2006), Fellow of the European Society (FESC).