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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Diseases of the nose and paranasal sinuses

  • Diseases of the ear

  • Diseases of the larynx

  • Head and neck surgery

  • Surgical treatment of head and neck tumors

  • Plastic surgery

  • Allergy treatment

  • Functional and reconstructive surgery of the ENT region

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

1988–1994 

Johannes Gutenberg University, School of Medicine, Mainz

1992 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
1993 University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
1993–1994
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles University of Southern California (USC)
1994 United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE)
1994 Doctoral degree (MD), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Faculty of Medicine
1996

Medical board exam

1999 Certified Instructor of the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM), Head and Neck Section
2000 Board Certification as Specialist in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Mainz, Germany                
2001

Post-Doc Training: Mayo Clinic / Rochester, MN, USA (Rhinologic Laboratory, Immunologic Laboratory)

2002

Post-Doc Training: Prof. Norman Pastorek, New York University (NYU) “Facial Plastic Surgery”

2003
Post-Doc Training:  Prof. Gene Tardy and Prof. Dean Toriumi,  University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA “Rhinoplasty”
2004

PhD Thesis, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Faculty of Medicine

2005 Specialized ENT Surgery
2006 Specialization in Allergology
2007 Qualification in Plastic Surgery
2007

Elected Chair of the Dept. of ORL-HNS, University of Halle Wittenberg, Germany – declined

2008

Elected Chair of the Dept. of ORL-HNS, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden 

2009

Visiting Professor at New York University

2009–2011

Med-Uni Graz:  Professors Stammberger and Mokri Endoskopic Skull base surgery

2010

Visiting Professor at University of Upstate New York at Buffalo

Since 2020

Member of the board, Helios HSK Wiesbaden

Since 2021

Medical Director, Helios Private Hospital Wiesbaden

Certification

  • 1994: United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE)

  • 1996: Medical board exam (Approbation)

  • 1999: Certified Instructor, German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM), Head & Neck Section

  • 2000: Board Certification in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (Mainz, Germany)

  • 2005: Specialized ENT Surgery

  • 2006: Specialization in Allergology

  • 2007: Qualification in Plastic Surgery

Extra information

Awards & Honors

  • 1999: „Cottle Award for outstanding basic and clinical research in the field of rhinology” by the American Rhinologic Society human respiratory mucosa for the study: “Subacute effects of ozone exposure on cultivated human respiratory mucosa”
  • 2005: "Presidential Citation Award" from the American Rhinologic Society, “for untiring efforts within the international rhinologic community”
  • 2006: “Honorary Award” from American Rhinologic Society
  • 2011: “Best Paper 2011 for prevention and early detection of head and neck cancer” from American Head and Neck Society at the Annual Meeting 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, for the study: “First systematic intraoperative application of confocal endomicroscopy for early detection of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck”
  • 2013: Certificate of Honor, American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Memberships

  1. German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
  2. Association of Southwest German Otolaryngologists
  3. German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM)
  4. European Rhinologic Society
  5. European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery
  6. European Skull Base Society
  7. European Academy of Otology and Neurotology (EAONO)
  8. International Fellow of the American Rhinologic Society
  9. Fellow of the American Head and Neck Society
  10. American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery





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