- Degree course in biology with specialization/differentiation in human genetics
- Diploma in 1974
- Biological medical research essay at the university of Tübingen and the Washington DC Gen. hospital
- Degree course in medicine, approbation in 1980
- Experience and further training in following:
- Internal medicine, gynecology, surgery, emergency medicine
- Qualification as stress and health manager
- Advanced training - nutritional medicine
- Qualified medical specialist for general medicine
- Worked as GP in the own practice until 2010
- Specialized in chronic infections and tick-transmitted infections since 2010
member of the German Lyme Disease Association
- Taking molecular medicine into account at the diagnosis and therapy processes for some time past
