Specialist training in urology at the university clinics of Edinburgh, Düsseldorf and Hamburg
Since 1995 employed at the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf with the clinical and scientific focus on the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer
2000 Scholarship from the German Research Foundation for a one-year guest research fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
2001 - 2004 Consultant at the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf and head of the prostate cancer outpatient centre
2001 Post-doctoral thesis in the specialist field of urology on "Evaluating prognoses in prostate cancer"
2004 Appointment as senior consultant at the Martini Clinic in Hamburg
2006 Co-author of the S3 guidelines on prostate cancer
2006 - 2012 European Urology: "Surgery in Motion", editor
2007 Appointed Professor
2011 Appointed Medical Director of the Martini Clinic
2012 Member of the Scientific Council of the German Chamber of Physicians
2013 European Urology Residents Education Programme: Member of the Faculty
Reviewer of numerous national and international scientific periodicals
Member of the German, European and American societies for urology
Surgical expertise in open and robot-assisted nerve saving radical prostatectomy, as well as brachytherapy of prostate cancer in afterloading and seed implantation procedures