Institutional and Academic Activities

* indicates office held

Hannover Medical School
Cardiac Surgery Residency Program *Program Director	3/2000 – 4/2012
Integrated Research and Treatment Program for Organ Transplantation *Member internal advisory board	8/2008 – 8/2010
Committee for Surgical Research	2008 – 2012
Other Organizations
Committee for Thoracic Organ Transplantation of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery *Chair	2/2008 – 2012
Working Group for the Treatment of Heart and Lung Failure of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery *Chair	2/2005 – 4/2011
Working Group for Thoracic Organ Transplantation of the German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer) *Member	10/2008 – 10/2014
Advisory Board for Thoracic Organ Transplantation of DSO (German national OPO)	1/2007 – 2012
Board of Trustees International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps (ISRBP)	4/2009 – 2012
Working group for Mechanical Circulatory Support International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)	4/2009 – 2012
European Advisory Board for Thoratec Inc.	2007 – 2009

Board of Directors, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)	4/2012 – 4/2015
President, European Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ESHLT)	1/2014 – 1/2016
Secretary, European Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ESHLT)	1/2012 – 1/2014
Board of Trustees, International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps (ISRBP)	2009 – 2012
European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS)
German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (GSTCVS)
Member Working Group of Perioperative Medicine (CAPM) of the German Surgical Society (DGCH)
Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft (DTG)
Member Working Group Thoracic Organ Transplantation, Federal Chamber of Physisicans, Berlin, Germany	2008–2014

Reviewing manuscripts for the following journals: