1983 – 1990 
Studies in Human Medicine at the University of Köln

1991 – 1993
Junior doctor at the Clinic for Rheumatology in Herne

1993 – 1994
Assistant doctor at the medical clinic Herz-Jesu-Krankenhaus in Fulda (D), Department of geriatrics and rheumatology

1994 – 2001

Assistant doctor at the medical clinic Herz-Jesu-Krankenhaus in Fulda, Department of internal medicine and gastroenterology

2001- 2016
Senior Physician in Department of Internal Medicine Tuttlingen (District Clinic, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany)