Occlusive peripheral arterial disease (“intermittent claudication”),

Disorders of the arterial circulation of the brain, kidneys and intestines,

Catheter treatment of arterial circulation disorders,

Ultrasound diagnostics of blood vessels, Inflammatory vascular disease (“vasculitis”),

Early detection and prevention of atherosclerosis (“vessel calcification”),

Fat Metabolism Disorders,

Vein thrombosis,

Phlebeurysm

• 1981 – 1987 study of human medicine in Heidelberg and Mainz.
• 1987 license to practice
• 1988 PhD, Department of Endocrinology, University of Mainz
• 1987 – 1992 advanced training in internal medicine, medical polyclinic, Ludwig Maximilian University Hospital in Munich
• 1992 – 1994 fellowship in Metabolism and Endocrinology, Center for Human Nutrition, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
• 1994 – 1999 advanced training in internal medicine and angiology,
• Medical Polyclinic, Ludwig-Maxilian Clinic, University of Munich
• 1996 Recognized as Doctor of Internal Medicine
• 1999 recognized as Doctor of Angiology
• 1999 – 2007 chief physician of the Interdisciplinary Vascular Center of the clinic Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2000 habilitation
• 2007 Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2007 – 2009 Chief Physician, Vascular Center Münchner Freiheit
• 2009 – 2011 Head of the Department of Angiology, Clinic and Polyclinic Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf
• Since 2011 Chief Physician and Partner at the Tal Vascular Center