Born 30 Sept 1941 at Neustettin
Primary and secondary school 1948-1956
High school 1956-1960
Study of medicine at the Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle/Saale 1960-1966
Internship in Internal Medicine, Surgery (traumatology), and Physiological chemistry 1966-1967
Dermatology training at Dept Dermatol, Martin-Luther-University Halle 1967-1971, board certification 1971
Senior resident till Jan 1973
General practitioner at Arnstein/Unterfranken 1973-1974
Dept Dermatol Univ Erlangen 1975-1986
Professor and chairman, Dept Dermatol Wuppertal Hosp, Acad Teaching Hosp Univs Düsseldorf and Witten-Herdecke 1986-2000
Head, Inst Dermatol, Klinikk Bunaes, Sandvika, Oslo, Norway 2000-2004
Dermatologist, Dermatol Clin „Dermaticum“, Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse, Freiburg, Germany, since 2004
Honorary Consultant, Dept Dermatol, Univ Med Ctr St Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2004-2005
Visiting professor, Dept Dermatol, Univ Berne, Switzerland, since 2005
Senior Consultant, Dept Dermatol, Acad Hosp, Univ Ghent, Belgium, since 2006
Senior Consultant, Centro de Dermatologia, Instituto CUF, Porto, Portugal, since 2008
MD: Univ Halle 1968
PhD: Univ Erlangen 1978
Associate professor: Erlangen 1979
Clinical professor: Erlangen 1980
Special interests
Dermatopathology, dermatological surgery, nail diseases, diseases of the oral mucosa, aesthetic dermatology
Publications
>300 journal articles, >160 book chapters, author of 1 book, co-editor of 5 books, >1200 lectures at national and international meetings
Reviewer for Arch Dermatol, Br J Dermatol, Eur J Dermatol, Hautarzt, J Am Acad Dermatol, J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol, J German Soc Dermatol etc.
Member of the editorial board of several journals
Societies
German Dermatol Soc, German Soc Dermatol Surg Oncol, Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol, French Soc Dermatol Venereol (Corresponding Member), Austrian Soc Dermatol (Corresponding member), German Working Group Dermatohistopathol (Past President) Asoc Colomb Dermatol (Honorary member), German Mycol Soc, Mex Soc Dermatol Surg (Hon Member), Turk Dermatol Soc (Hon Memb), Pol Soc Dermatol (Hon Memb), Int Soc Dermatol Surg (Past president), Eur Nail Soc (Past President), Eur Soc Cosm Aesthet Dermatol (Past Pres), Dermatological Surgery Group Swiss Soc Dermatol Venereol (Hon Member), Asociación Argentina de Medicina y Cirugía Cosmética (Hon Member), Romanian Soc Dermatol (Hon Member), Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venereology.