- Specialist in internal medicine (internist)
- General practitioner (GP)
- Emergency medicine, sports medicine
- Academic clinical teacher at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (university hospital)
- Authorised by the Berlin Chamber of Physicians (Ärztekammer) to deliver advanced training
- Born in Berlin
- 2 children
Education & medical practice
- Until 1978 at the Eckener-Gymnasium school in Berlin-Tempelhof
- 1978 - 1981 nursing at St. Marien hospital in Berlin-Kreuzberg
- 1981 – 1987 studied medicine, philosophy, history of medicine, and general history at the FU Berlin
- Practical year in New Zealand
- 02.1988 – 07.1988 assistant doctor in emergency medicine (A&E) at Walsall, England
- 08.1988 – 11.1988 assistant doctor in Dept. of Anaesthesia at Walsgrave, England
- 11.1988 - 06.1989 assistant doctor to Dr. Sundermann - internal medicine Berlin
- 05.1989 – 08.1989 assistant doctor in anaesthesia at Steglitz Clinic, Berlin
- 08.1989 – 07.1994 assistant doctor in med. clinical centre at Klinikum Virchow, Berlin
- Since 08.1994 registered internist in Berlin-Schöneberg