Since 10/2013
Head of Cardiology at UKBB

08/2012 – 10/2013
Head of Paediatric Cardiology, Clinic for General Paediatrics, Neonatology and Paediatric Cardiology, University of Düsseldorf

2007 – 2012
Senior physician at the Clinic for Paediatric Cardiology and Pneumology at the Centre for Paediatrics, University of Düsseldorf

2001 – 2007
Advanced training in paediatric cardiology, University of Düsseldorf

1994 – 2001
Specialist training in paediatrics and further training in neonatology, University of Heidelberg and Tübingen

1994 – 1998
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physiology, University of Tübingen

1994
State examination in human medicine, University of Heidelberg

1990 – 1992
PhD at the Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology in Heidelberg, Department of Molecular Genetics, Molecular analyses of the Wilms' tumour suppressor gene (11p13)

1987 – 1994
Studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg, Cardiff, San Diego and San Francisco

2016
Recognition of the SIWF/FMH paediatric cardiology training qualification (B, 1 year)

2014
FMH recognition of the additional qualification in paediatric cardiology (2006)

2013
FMH recognition as a specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine (2000)

2012
Additional qualification for adults with congenital heart defects from the German Societies of Cardiology and Paediatric Cardiology

2006
Specialist in paediatric cardiology, Düsseldorf University Children's Hospital

2001 – 2013
Establishment of a special consultation hour for children and adolescents with a pacemaker/defibrillator and ion channel diseases;
Acquisition of expertise in pacemaker therapy and automatic implanted cardioverter/defibrillators;
Transesophageal electrophysiological examination for the detection and risk stratification of tachycardic cardiac arrhythmias;
Consultant paediatric cardiologist, fetal cardiology with fetal echocardiography and family counselling at the University Women's Hospital and two prenatal practices in Düsseldorf;
Cardiac MRI in collaboration with paediatric radiologists;
Diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterisation;
Training of children/adolescents and their parents in the self-management of oral anticoagulation

2001
Additional qualification in neonatology, Heidelberg University Children's Hospital

2000
Specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine, Heidelberg and Tübingen University Children's Hospital

2014
Award of an honorary professorship in paediatrics, University of Basel

2013
Appointment as Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Düsseldorf University Hospital
Cardiac phenotyping of the TASK-1 and Pannexin-1 knock-out mouse

2007 – 2010
Scientific funding from the German Society for Paediatric Cardiology

2007 – 2008
Priority research funding from the University of Düsseldorf

2005 – 2007
Start-up research funding from the University of Düsseldorf

2001
Award of the Venia legendi for Paediatrics, University of Heidelberg
Molecular mechanisms of L-selectin-mediated signal transduction

1998 – 2004
Material aid from the German Research Foundation

1996
Junior application from Heidelberg University

1994
Doctorate at the Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg;
Molecular genetic analyses of the Wilms' tumour gene on chromosome 11p13

Since 2018
Member of the Habilitation Commission University of Basel

Since 2013
Reviewer for doctorates, habilitations and titular professorships University of Basel

2011 – 2013
Member of appointment committees and habilitation committees, University of Düsseldorf

2009 – 2010
Research commission of the German Society of Paediatric Cardiology

Since 1998
Reviewer for Blood, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Physiology, European Journal of Paediatrics, Pediatric Research, research proposals of the National Science Foundation, USA, Margarete von Wrangell and Olympia-Morata Habilitation Programme;
Selection committee of the German National Academic Foundation

Since 2018
WATCH working group (working group for adolescents and adults with a congenital heart defect)
Member of the Habilitation Commission University of Basel

Since 2017
Paediatric sports medicine

Since 2016
Basel Medical Society
Association herznetz.ch

Since 2014
Pacemaker and Electrophysiology Working Group of the Swiss Society of Cardiology
EACVI (European Association for Cardiovascular Imaging)

Since 2013
Swiss Society for Paediatric Cardiology
Paediatricians' Association of the Basel Region
FMH
Reviewer for doctorates, habilitations and titular professorships University of Basel

Since 2012
Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects e.V.

Since 2007
European Society of Paediatric Cardiology
German Society for Paediatric Cardiology

Since 1995
German Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Since 2018
Mentor for young female scientists at the University of Basel;
Member of the Board of the Swiss Society of Paediatric Cardiology

Since 2016
Member of the patronage committee of the Basel University Orchestra

2012 – 2013
Mentor in the A² programme (support for medical students at the UKD)

2011 – 2013
Scholarship holder of the Selma Meyer Mentoring Programme at the University of Düsseldorf

1999
Young Investigator Award of the European Society for Hematology and Immunology, Washington

1998
Keynote lecture at the Keystone Symposium on Molecular Mechanisms of Adhesion, USA

1996
Award of the German Society for Microcirculation

1987 – 1994
Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation