Higher education

1991 - 1995
Studied Human medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Doctorate

1992
"On the prevention of acid aspiration syndrome during caesarean section"

Habilitation

2001
"Differentiation of peripheral and central analgesic effects of intravenous anesthetics in human pain models"

Master

2006
"Internal cost allocation of anesthesia services at a university hospital - opportunities and risks of different calculation models for the management of anesthesiology clinics"

Practical activities and qualifications

• 1989
  Basic Science Component FMGEMS
• 1990
  Clinical Science Component FMGEMS
• 1991
  Medical examination
• 1991 - 1993
  Internship at the Institute of Physiology and Experimental Pathophysiology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 1993
  License to practice medicine
• 1993 - 2009
  Assistant physician and senior physician at the Anesthesiology Clinical Department of the University Hospital Erlangen
• 1994
  Specialist certificate in emergency medical services
• 1997
  Qualification certificate "Chief Emergency Physician"
• 1999
  Recognition as an anaesthetist
• 2001
  Appointment as senior emergency physician for the Nuremberg rescue service area by the Nuremberg Rescue Association
• 2003
  Certificate of qualification "Transfusion Officer"
• 2003
  Additional qualification "Special pain therapy"
• 2003
  Additional qualification "Quality Management"
• 2003
  Deputy QM representative of the Anesthesiology Clinical Department
• 2004
  Examination for quality manager by the German Society for Quality (DGQ)
• 2005
  Additional qualification "Emergency Medicine"
• 2006
  Qualification certificate "Medical leadership"
• 2007
  Additional qualification "Special anesthesiological intensive care medicine"
• 2007
  Early appointment as associate professor
• 2007
  Senior Consultant and Deputy Clinical Director of the Clinical Department of Anesthesiology, QM Officer of the Clinical Department of Anesthesiology
• Since 2009
  Director of the Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine ,Hannover Medical School

• Application of human pain models for the differentiated investigation of peripheral and central sensitization processes in humans

• Nerve fiber derivations in-vitro and in-vivo

• Investigation of local mediator release using dermal microdialysis

• Laser Doppler Imaging (LDI) and Full-Field Laser Perfusion Imaging (FLPI)

• Functional magnetic resonance imaging of nociceptive processes in humans

• Quantitative sensory testing (QST)

• Planning and conducting clinical studies in accordance with international guidelines

Funding

German Research Foundation

SFB 353 Pathobiology of pain development and pain processing
1998-2000 Project C4 - Microdialysis in human skin: Studies on itching, hyperalgesia and differential nerve blockade
2001-2003 Project C4 - Mediators of itching, hyperalgesia and neurogenic inflammation

KFO 130 Determinants and modulators of postoperative pain processing
2002-2005 Initiation and coordination of the KFO application
2005-2008 Subproject 4 - Modulation of endogenous pain inhibition by surgery and general anesthesia - Functional imaging of central pain processing

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Funding priority "Research networks for pain research"
2002-2004 German research network for neuropathic pain, project: "Causes of pain and hyperalgesia in neuropathic pain syndrome"
2005-2007 Further participation as a cooperation partner

Prizes

• 1998 Sertürner Prize together with R. Sittl for the work "Peripheral antihyperalgesic effect of morphine to heat, but not to mechanical, stimulation in healthy volunteers after ultraviolet-B irradiation"
• 1999 1st Prize for Pain Research of the German Society for the Study of Pain together with M. Schmelz and R. Sittl for the work "Peripheral and central mechanisms of action of systemic lidocaine in experimental pain models in humans - studies on the differential antihyperalgesic effect of low-dose local anesthetics"
• 2003 Carl-Ludwig-Schleich Prize of the German Society for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine for the work "Differential modulation of remifentanil-induced analgesia and post-infusion hyperalgesia by S-ketamine and clonidine in humans"
• 2003 Sertürner Prize together with M. Schmelz for the work "Naloxone provokes similar pain facilitation as observed after short-term infusion of remifentanil in humans"
• 2006 1st Prize Best Abstract Competition of the European Society of Anaesthesiology for the presentation "Validation of the electrical hyperalgesia model in human volunteers: Effects of oral pregabalin and the NK1 antagonist aprepitant"
• 2006 1st Science Prize of the Austrian Pain Society for the paper "Different profiles of buprenorphine-induced analgesia and antihyperalgesia in a human pain model"
• 2006 Sertürner Prize together with C. Maihöfner, R. Ringler and F. Herrendobler for the work " Brain imaging of analgesic and antihyperalgesic effects of cyclooxygenase inhibition in an experimental human pain model: a functional MRI-study "

Specialist journals:

Anesthesiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, European Journal of Anaesthesiology, Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Pain, European Journal of Pain, Clinical Journal of Pain, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, etc.

Professional societies:

Health Research Board Ireland

• 2010 - 2011 President of the German Pain Society
• Since 2013 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the German Pain Society
• Since 2015 Member of the Presidium of the DGAI, representative for pain medicine
• 2013 - 2019 1st spokesperson of the Scientific Working Group Pain Medicine of the DGAI
• Since 2020 2nd spokesperson of the Scientific Working Group Pain Medicine of the DGAI

• German Society for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)
  • Scientific Working Group Pain Therapy (from 01/2008: Secretary)

• European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA)

• Professional Association of German Anesthesiologists (BDA)

• German University Association (DHV)

• State Physician Lower Saxony of the German Red Cross

• Peer Review Intensive Care Medicine Committee of the Lower Saxony Medical Association

• Emergency Medicine Working Group of the Lower Saxony Medical Association

• State Committee for Rescue Services of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport