Education and Career
1978–87 Universities of Freiburg, Lakeland/Florida, München, Lübeck, Wellington/Newzealand
1987 Graduation
1987 Approbation
1988 Doctoral Thesis
1997 Professoral Thesis

Residency
1987 Universität zu Lübeck
1989 Freie Universität Berlin
1992 Universität Hamburg
1993 Consultant Universität Göttingen
1997 Associate Professor Universität Göttingen

Head of Department
2000 Bergisch-Gladbach
2005 Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, Hamburg

Awards
1993 and 1999 Peter-Bischoff-Preis
2005 Gaikwad Oration
2007 Asklepios Award für Medizinische Innovation und Qualität Honorary Member New York Section of the American Urological Association

Membership
German Society for Urology
Member West-East-Commitee
North-German Society for Urology
West-German Society for Urology
West-German Society for the promotion of talented urologists
American Urological Association

Member of the History Commitee
Endourological Society
Academy for Ethics in Medicine
European Intrarenal Surgery Society

Examiner European Board of Urology Board of Urology State General Medical Council

Reviewer

Journal of Urology
African Journal of Urology
European Journal of Clinical Investigation
Journal für Urologie und Urogynäkologie
Extracta Urologica
Drugs and Aging

Editorial board World Journal of Urology

Member scientific advisory board
Spina bifida and hydrocephalus society
Uro News
Yaramdas Patel Academic Centre, Nadiad, India

Publications
journal articles 91
published abstracts 129
national/international lectures 168
several book articles
Editor of several books