Ärztlicher / Beruflicher Werdegang
- seit 2018
Research fellow of the Section of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital
Focus of Research:
Diagnosis and treatment of neglected tropical / infectious diseases, in particular cystic and alveolar echinococcosis, Buruli ulcer, epidemic bacterial meningitis, dengue fever and snake bite envenoming.
Cooperation with partner institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia and Latin America. The principle approach is multidisciplinary with the aim of translating research findings into clinical practice.
- 2003 – 2018
Head of the Section Clinical Tropical Medicine
- 1997 – 2003
Senior registrar at Section Clinical Tropical Medicine
- 1994 – 1995
Sabbatical at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. MSc Course Public Health in Developing Countries, University of London; MSc thesis: ”Synthesising mathematical modelling, field epidemiology, clinical and laboratory sciences in lymphatic filariasis”
- 1991 – 1997
Senior Registrar at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basle
- 1988 – 1991
SHO at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basle
- 1986 – 1988
SHO at St. Joseph’s Hospital Anchal / South India. Visiting doctor at the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, and at the Leprosy Hospital, Chettipatty / South India.
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
- 2010
apl. Professor, University of Heidelberg / Germany
- 2007
Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg (“Evidence-based algorithms for treating envenomings and poisonings”)
- 1995
MSc PHDC, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London/UK and University of London
- 1989
Medical Doctorate, University of Göttingen / Germany („Distribution of Toxoplasma gondii in Kerala / South India: diagnostics, epidemiology and ecology of the parasite“)
- 1980 – 1986
Clinical training in Germany and UK
- 1973 – 1980
Medical School, University Hospital Göttingen / Germany
- 1969 – 1973
Geology at University of Göttingen / Germany and University of Reading / UK: Diploma
Auszeichnungen
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande) awarded for Tropical Medicine 2016
Ämter und Funktionen
- seit 2018
Member of the WHO Snakebite envenoming (SBE) Working Group
- seit 2016
Chair of the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (WHO-IWGE)
- seit 2014
Editor of Manson’s Tropical Diseases, 23rd ed (2014), Editors: Farrar J, Hotez P, Junghanss T, Kang G, Lalloo D, White NJ
- 2010 – 2011
President of the Federation of the European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH)
- seit 1996
Editor of the Journal "Tropical Medicine & International Health”
Member of the clinical guideline committee of the German Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health (DTG e.V.)
