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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Malignant tumors of the lung, e.g. lung cancer, sarcoma, etc.
  • Daughter tumors (metastases) in the lungs from tumors of other organs (intestines, kidneys, mammary glands, testicles, prostate, etc.)
  • Benign and malignant tumors of the pleura e.g. pleural mesothelioma, malignant pleural effusion
  • Benign and malignant tumors of the medistinum e.g. thymoma, thymic carcinoma
  • Benign and malignant diseases of the trachea, structures, stenoses, tumors
  • Thoracic trauma, injuries, rib and sternum fractures, pulmonary hemorrhage
  • Suppurations in the chest, pleural empyema

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

1998-2005
Study of human medicine, Hannover Medical School
2004-2005
PJ-Tertial Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Teaching Hospital of Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (Dr. Mathisen)
2006 - 2007
Resident at the Clinic for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery of the Municipal Hospital Braunschweig, Germany
2007 - 2008
Resident at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
2008 - 2010
Resident at the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery of the Pulmonary Hospital Großhansdorf  
2010 - 2013
Resident at the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery of the Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinic Wiesbaden (Prof. Dr. Schirren)
2013 - 2016

Deputy Division Head of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery at the Hannover Medical School.
With rotation to the section of lung transplantation

2016- 2018
Senior consultant at the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery at the Helios University Hospital Wuppertal
Since March 2018
Chief Physician of the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery at Helios University Hospital Wuppertal

Academic activities

2007
Experimental doctoral thesis at the Clinic for Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery of the Hannover Medical School in the field of tissue engineering on the topic "Generation of a bioartificial fibromuscular tissue with autoregenerative capacities for surgical reconstruction".
2012
Recognition as specialist for thoracic surgery
2010
Hospitation Royal Brompton Hospital, Thoracic Surgery,London
2014 and 2016
Hospitation Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue, Clinic for Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Paris, France (Prof. Dartevelle/Fadel)

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