* May 14, 1964

Education

Dr. Public Health (Dr. PH), awarded 2003 in Public Health / Health Sciences about “High-Tech Home Care – Options for Nursing from an actor-theory restructured system theory perspective” at the University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Health Sciences (North-Rhine Westfalia / Germany)

Master Public Health (MPH) awarded 1996 in Public Health / Health Sciences about “The Debate about Case Management and it’s implications for the German Health Care System” at the Technical University Berlin (Berlin / Germany)

Arts Certificate in Philosophy / Educational Science awarded 1993 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Bavaria / Germany) and the Distance University Hagen (North-Rhine Westfalia / Germany)

Licence to teach (LT) awarded 1989 in Protestant Theology / Religious Education after two internship years working as a teacher at several schools in greater Munich area (Bavaria / Germany) in different primary and secondary schools

University Degree in Religious Education (Dipl. Rel. Paed.) awarded 1987 in Protestant Theology / Pedagogy about “Symbol didactics and the theology of Paul Tillich” at the Augustana University Neuendettelsau / Munich (Bavaria / Germany)

Appointments & Positions

Director of the Institute of Health and Nursing Science (since 2012), Full University Professorship for Health Sciences Education at Charité, Medical Faculty of the Humboldt-University Berlin and the Free University Berlin (since 2009), CC1 Health and Human Sciences (Berlin / Germany)

Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury Kent / UK in Collaboration with the England Centre for Practice Development (2016 - 2020)

Professorship for Health Sciences / Patient-centered Management (2003 – 2009) at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (Bavaria / Germany)

Research Fellow (1997 – 2003) at the Institute of Nursing Science, University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Health Sciences (North-Rhine Westfalia / Germany)

Research Fellow (1996 – 1997) at WZB – Social Science Research Center Berlin, Working Group for Public Health Research (Berlin / Germany)

Head of the Department “Nursing & Health Care” (1992 – 1996) at Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Berlin / Federal Umbrella Organization of German Self-help Organizations for PW HIV/AIDS (Berlin / Germany)

Chief Executive (1989 – 1992) of Aids-Hilfe Stuttgart e.V. and the “Regenbogendienst Stuttgart”, a Home Nursing Care Service for PW HIV/AIDS (Baden-Wuerttemberg / Germany)

Teacher Internship (1987 – 1989) in responsibility of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria / Deanary Munich & Augsburg (Bavaria / Germany)