Treatment of bronchial asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
interstitial lung diseases/pulmonary fibrosis, interventional pulmonology, lung transplantation, treatment of cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, thoracic oncology.

• 1979 – 1985 studying medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).
• 1986–1996 internship and residency, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Leningrad Medical University
• 1987 Doctor of Medicine, LMU
• 1996 habilitation, LMU
• 1997–2001 attending physician of the intensive care unit (1997–98) and dept. Pulmonary diseases (1998-) at the 1st Department of Internal Diseases of LMU
• 2001-2010 head of department respiratory diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, LMU
• 2002-2010 Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Respiratory Diseases, LMU
• 2010-2012 Professor of the Department of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine III – Pneumology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
• Since 2013, Professor of the Department of Medicine and Pulmonology, Director of the Pulmonology Clinic of LMU
• Since 2013, co-chairman of the Center for Comprehensive Pulmonology at Ludwig Maximilian University
• Since 2013 P.I. German Lung Research Center (DZL)
• 2013–2020 Medical Director of the Asklepios Pulmonary Clinic, Munich-Gauting
• Since 2020, Consultant Professor at the Asklepios Medical Center for Pulmonary Diseases, Munich-Gauting
• 2019 President of the National Congress of the German Respiratory Society (DGP)
• 2016-2018 Chairman of the Scientific Association for the Treatment of Lung Diseases (WATL)
• 2016 President of the Rare Lung Diseases Congress (WATL), Berlin, Germany
• 2014 Co-chairman of the Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society, Munich, Germany
• Since 2013 Chairman of Stiftung Atemweg
• 2008-2012 ERS Delegate to the ATS/ERS Lung Transplant Committee
• Since 2002, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the German Respiratory Society (DGP).