President of the Deutschsprachige Internationale Gesellschaft für extrakorporale Stoßwellentherapie DIGEST e.V. (German-speaking International Association for Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy).

Chief Communication Officer (CCO) International Society for Medical Shockwave Therapy (ISMST).

1993
Abitur at the Robert-Koch-Schule Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

1994–2001
Medical degree at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (University of Göttingen).

2001
Doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (University of Frankfurt) & Aventis AG Frankfurt am Main.

2001–2007
Residency at the Hannover Medical School in the Clinic for Cardiac, Thorax, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery (Prof. Dr Axel Haverich), Trauma Surgery (Prof. Dr Christian Krettek), Visceral and Transplantation Surgery (Prof. Dr Jürgen Klempnauer) and Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery (Prof. Dr Peter M. Vogt).