Clinical Focus:

? Reconstructive urology

? Tumor urology

? Pediatric urology

Additional Designation:

? Special Urological Surgery

? Drug-Induced Tumour Therapy 

? Andrology

Career:

? Since December 2008: Clinic Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Urology of the 

? University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (largest prostate cancer center of the world)

? 2002-2008: Chief Physician of the Urological Centre Hamburg (UZH), Department for Urology and Pediatric Urology, Asklepios Klinik Harburg

? 2001: acting head of he Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology of Asklepios Klinik Harburg

? 2000-2001: Head of the focal point Pediatric Urology of the Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology of the AK Harburg

Awards:

? “Top Mediziner ” in Urology on FOCUS

? Award for Excellence as Teaching Center, Società Italiano di Andrologia, 2004

? Prize “Award of Excellence” Jackson Hole Seminars 2006  

? F. Brantley Scott Award of Excellence 2017

Membership:

? German Society of Urology (DGU) (2003-2008 member of the board as secretary and press officer)

? Working Group Pediatric Urology of the DGU (Secretary)

? Association of North German Urologists (President 2014)

? European Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (ESGURS) (Secretary until 2002, 2002 to 2008, President)

? Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS) (Board Member, President 2000 / 2001)

? Société Internationale d`Urology (SIU) (Adjunct Scientific Chair)

Recent Publications:

? Outcome of Buccal Mucosa Graft Urethroplasty: A Detailed Analysis of Success, Morbidity and Quality of Life in A Contemporary Patient Cohort at a Referral Center.

? Minimum Number of MRI Ultrasound Fusion Targeted Biopsy Cores Needed for Prostate Cancer Detection: Multivariable Retrospective Lesion-Based Analyses of Patients Treated with Radical Prostatectomy