2005
Postgraduate course in hospital management at the German Association of Hospital Financial Controlling (DVKC)

1998
Diploma of the European Academy of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and approval as DEAA (EDAIC)

1994
Approved as a specialist in anaesthetics by the Berlin Chamber of  Physicians

1991
Approval as Dr. med. at the Free University of  Berlin

1978 – 1987
Medical School at the Free University of Berlin and the Facoltá di Medicina é Chirurgia della Universitá di Studi di Bari, Italy

1976 – 1978
Read philosophy and social science at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich