Minimally invasive surgery for benign and malignant diseases of the colon (especially diverticulitis and rectal cancer), Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, intestinal prolapse.

Minimally invasive surgery for esophageal diseases – in the so-called reflux disease, malignant tumors, achalasia.

Minimally invasive surgery for pancreatic diseases – especially for tumors in the tail area of the pancreas.

Minimally invasive transperitoneal and extraperitoneal access to the adrenal gland – for all benign and malignant tumors.

Minimally invasive surgery for diseases of the thyroid and parathyroid glands.

Minimally invasive approaches to splenectomy – for example, in lymphoma or Werlhof’s disease.

He completed a course of study in 1987-93 at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. Residency in 1993 at the Regensburg University Hospital. In 2012 he became a professor and since 2014 has been working in his current position at the Bogenhausen Clinic.