Education
1950 – 1962 School attendance in Dresden (A level)
1961 A level in English language
1963 – 1969 University education (Humboldt-Universität Berlin; Medizinische Akademie Dresden)
1969 Doctor of Medicine
1969 Completion of dissertation: Construction and realization of a device registering isodose curves with the Siemens Gammameter
1974 Specialist in Internal Medicine
1974 Final university examination as translator of Russian medical texts (University Leipzig)
1977 Final university examination as translator of English medical texts (University Leipzig)
1977 Subspecialist in diabetology and metabolic diseases
1979 Facultas docendi
1983Habilitation: Kinetic characterization of lipoproteins in hypertriglyceridemic patients with special attention to the interrelations between lipid and carbohydrate metabolism
1987 Sabbatical (6 months) at the Cardiologic Center of the Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow (lipoprotein apheresis)
1993 Subspecialist in endocrinology
Employment
2003 – present C 3 –Professor in Internal Medicine / Metabolic Diseases; Medical Clinic and Outpatient Department III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
2000 – 2002 Provisional Director, Institute and Policlinics of Clinical Metabolic Research, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology Dresden
1996 – 2000 Deputy Director, Institute and Policlinics of Clinical Metabolic Research, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology Dresden
1994 – present C 3 – Professor in Internal Medicine / Metabolic Diseases; Medical Faculty, University of Technology Dresden
1992 – 1994 Associated Professor; Clinic of Internal Medicine, Medical Academy Dresden
1988 – 1992 Extraordinary Docent in Internal Medicine; Clinic of Internal Medicine, Medical Academy Dresden
1979 – 1988 Senior doctor; Clinic of Internal Medicine, Medical Academy Dresden
1969 – 1979 Junior doctor; Clinic of Internal Medicine, Medical Academy Dresden