• Clinical Epidemiology, Outcomes Research
• Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disease
• Health Care in Chronically Ill Youth
• Routine Data Validation
• Systematic Reviews
• Evidence Based Medicine

Qualifications

• Certificate University Teaching, Baden-Württemberg
• Habilitation, University Hospital Regensburg
• Board Exams in internal medicine & specialization in gastroenterology, University Hospital Regensburg / BLÄK
• Certificate in Epidemiology from gmds, DAE (now DGEpi), DR-IBS and DGSMP
• MSc. Clinical Epidemiology, University of Calgary, Canada
• MD Thesis (Promotion), University Hospital Essen
• Study of Medicine, MH Hannover

Professional Career

• From 03/2014:  Full Professor for Epidemiology and Biometry, Department of Health Services Research
• 2011–2014: Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen
• 2008–2010: HMGU / LMU Munich, Senior Researcher, Coordinator CEDATA Registry
• 2005–2008: German Cochrane Center, Freiburg, Associate Director
• 1999–2005: Clinical residency, senior research Clin Epi, University Hospital Regensburg
• 1996–1998: GI Research Group, MSc Programme Clin Epi; University of Calgary
• 1994–1996: IMIBE Essen / Center for Internal Medicine, Junior Researcher

For ongoing and recently finished projects please refer to our project page.

Profiles: Google Scholar, Researchgate

For recently published papers and presentations, please be referred to our list of publications.

Current lectures and seminars can be viewed here.

Declaration of possible conflicts of interest