Further functions

• Senior Clinician Scientist at the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center (CHFC)
• Functional Senior Physician at the Department for Cardiology of the Department of Medicine I
• Head of the Academic Core Lab Ultrasound-based Cardiovascular Imaging
• Deputy Coordinative Physician of the Interdisciplinry Amyloidosis Center Northern Bavaria
• Member of the German Society of Cardiology
• Member of the German Society of Internal Medicine
• Member of the European Society of Cardiology
• Member of the Heart Failure Association fo the European Society of Cardiology
• Member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
• Member of the German Society for Amyloid Diseases

Qualifications

• Specialist in internal medicine
• Certfied by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
• Certificate: Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Assessment; Meijer Medical Ultrasound, Voorschoten, Niederlande
• Qualification for specialized genetic counseling in humans

Special fields

• Quality-controlled assessment of cardiac dimensions and function by echocardiography
• Characteristics and determinants of early forms of cardiac dysfunction