1981 – 1988 Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

04/1987 – 07/1987 Inselspital Berne, Switzerland, University clinic, Dept. of Orthopaedics

Mai 1988 Approbation Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz

Mai 1992 MD
Modified Bone Block Technique (M. Lange) for Treatment of Recurrent Shoulder Instability
Clinical and radiological results

06/1988 – 12/1988 Resident Orthopaedics
Inselspital Berne/Orthop. University Clinic, Switzerland
(Prof. R. Ganz)

12/1988 – 05/1990 Resident Traumatology
Dept. of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery
St. Vincenz- and Elisabeth-Hospital, Mainz
(Prof. P. Kirschner)

05/1990 – 10/1990 Shoulder Service
Dept. for Orthopaedic Surgery
University of San Antonio/Texas, USA
(Prof. CA Rockwood, Jr.)

10/1990 – 10/1993 Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery
Kantonspital Basel-Bruderholz Hospital, Switzerland
(Prof. W. Müller)
(Children’s Hospital Orthop. University Clinic Basel
Prof. F. Hefti 07/90 – 10/90)

*10/1993 – 05/1997 Assistant Professor Sports Clinic Stuttgart
(Prof. K. Steinbrück, Prof. P. Habermeyer)

*05/1997 – 12/1999 Head of Sportsmedicine Institute Frankfurt
Dept. for Arthroscopic and Reconstructive Sports Traumatology
Head of Shoulder Surgery

*since 01/2000 Head of Athletikum Hofheim a. T.
Center of Sportsmedicine & special Orthopaedic Surgery

*since 08/2001 Orthopaedic consultant for special shoulder surgery and sportstraumatology, Praxisklinik 2000 Freiburg, Germany