Curriculum vitae

I was born in 1969 in Zwickau, Germany. From 1988-1995 I studied Medicine at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, Pritzker Medical School, University of Chicago and Tufts University, Boston. In 1996 I started my training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the Medical School Hannover. I am board certified Internist (since 2004) and Nephrologist (since 2006). After finishing a two year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Vascular Biology Program at Stanford University in I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Medical School Hannover.

My teaching experience of more than 10 years includes the full course of Internal Medicine for nursing students; physical examination and a clinical course on differential diagnosis in Internal Medicine for Medical students; Vascular Pathobiology as part of the Biodesign Innovation Fellows Boot camp (Director: Paul J. Wang, MD) Stanford School of Medicine. I successfully completed the PRECEPT workshop on Teaching and Course Design at Stanford University in 2005.

I am member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Nephrology and a subject consultant for "Nephrology to watch and to hear" of NDT educational. Regular review activity includes Journals like Circulation, JASN.

I started my research training in 1992/1993 during the Academic year program with a stipend of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salsbury Cove, Maine and the Research Department of the Shriners Hospital of Crippled children, Tampa, Florida in the research team of Dr. T. J. Koob. There I finished my thesis "Proteoglycans, physicochemical and biomechanical properties of Myxine glutinosa notocord". After finishing Medical School I joined the research on ADMA led by Dr. J.C. Froelich, Dr. S.M. Bode-Boeger and Dr. R. Boeger. I also conducted many studies on the treatment of acute renal failure and new modes of dialysis therapy under the leadership of Dr. D. Fliser. In November 2004 I joined the vascular Biology Program at Stanford University; lead by Dr. J.P. Cooke, with stipend from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (Ki 8591/-1). After my postdoctoral research fellowship I am heading two research groups at the Medical School Hannover, investigating the vascular biology with a focus on the ADMA/NO System (supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (KFO 136) as well as new extracorporeal therapies (supported by the Else Kröner Fresenius Foundation (P63/06 //EKMS 06/03).