Higher education

• 1990 - 1997
  Study of Human medicine, Georg-August-University Göttingen

Practical year: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Doctorate

• 05/2000
  Doctorate at the Medical Faculty of Göttingen on the topic "Value of spiral CT in the detection of renal masses and in the preoperative staging of renal cell carcinomas"
  

Habilitation

• 09/2021
  Fasting in pediatric anesthesia-safely shorten
  

Practical activities and qualifications

• 1997 - 2001
  Internship and resident physician, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Ev. Diakoniewerk Friederikenstift, Hanover
• 2001
  Junior physician, Clinical Department for Anesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, St. Bernward Hospital, Hildesheim
• 2001 - 2011
  Clinical Department and Polyclinic for Anaesthesia and Intensive Therapy at the University of Rostock (Director: Prof. Dr. med. Gabriele Nöldge-Schomburg)
  from 2003 as a specialist, 2011 as a senior physician
• since 2011
  Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Hannover Medical School
  (Director: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Koppert)
• since 2017
  Senior Physician at the Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, MHH
• since 2022
  Head Senior Physician Staff of the Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, MHH
• since 2024
  Deputy Director of the Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and Head of Pediatric Anaesthesia, MHH

• Pediatric anesthesia
• Perioperative fasting
• Pediatric cardioanesthesia

Funding

• 2020
  Ellen Schmidt Program Habilitation funding for female scientists, funding amount €40,000

• 2023
  46,000€ from the MHH Foundation for a baby simulator for interprofessional training. The funding amount was applied for and approved together with PD Dr. Hendrik Eismann and PD Dr. Markus Flentje in 2023.

Prizes

• 2019
  Winner (in a team with Dr. Philip Bintaro, Dr. Lars Friedrich, Dr. Christina Quandt and Dr. Sabine Schneidewind) of the alumni award for innovative teaching at the MHH (EM!L) endowed with 5000€.
  For: "eFast Sonography" in teaching
• 2022
  German Patient Safety Award 2022 - Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit e.V., 3rd place, Keil O, Brunsmann K, Beck CE"Improvement of patient safety through the introduction of a structured team briefing immediately prior to the induction of pediatric anesthesia" endowed with 5000€
• 2022
  LOM Krankenversorgung 2022, MHH, 5th place, Keil O, Beck C, Dennhardt N, Girke S, Nickel K, Rigterink V, Sümpelmann R. Cost-neutral Facilities or Institutions of a premedication consultation hour in the pediatric clinic without additional personnel and space requirements.
• 2024
  LOMKrankenversorgung 2024, MHH 1st place, Beck C, Jüttner M, Keil O, Koppert W, Pantke S, Steinberg J. Creation of a decentralized equality plan for the medical department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine as an instrument of Human Resources.
  

• 2004 - 2016
  Member of the Program and Organizing Committee of the "Symposium for Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy", St. Anton a. A., Austria. Organized and managed by the Clinical Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Director: Prof. Dr. med. Gabriele Nöldge-Schomburg.
• 2011
  Congress Secretary German Anaesthesia Congress, Hamburg, Congress President: Prof. Dr. Dr. Gabriele Nöldge-Schomburg, University of Rostock.
• 2020
  Member ESAIC (European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care) Task Force Guideline Fasting in Children for Anaesthesia
• Since 2022
  Speaker of the DGAI pediatric cardioanesthesia working group
• Since 2024
  1st spokesperson of the DGAI pediatric anesthesia working group
• 2022 - 2023
  Section Editor for Current Opinion in Pediatric Anesthesia
• Since 2025
  Advisory board/expert panel of the journal "AINS" published by Thiemeverlag

• Professional Association of German Anesthesiologists (BDA)

• German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)

• Scientific Working Group on Pediatric Anaesthesia (WAKKA) of the DGAI

• Scientific Working Group Cardioanesthesia of the DGAI

• Scientific Working Group Pediatric Cardioanesthesia of the DGAI

• European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)

• European Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (ESPA)

• 2024-2025
  Ina Pichelmeyer Mentoring Program, Hannover Medical School
  
• 2025
  TANDEMmed mentoring program, RWTH Aachen University
  
• Since 2023
  Clinical mentor in the Clinical Scientist Program PRACTIS (DFG funded)
  
• Since 2025
  Head of fellowship program special pediatric anesthesia at the MHH