Head of department for care programs at BARMER GEK. Social scientist and graduate ecotrophologist, from 1994 to 1996 research assistant at the Institute for Comparative Health and Social Policy at the University of Giessen. Research focus: health promotion, managed care, statutory health insurance policy. Since 1996 with the BARMER replacement fund, including participation in model projects for integrated care, project management for hospital case management and DMP. Since 2004, head of the health and care management department in the BARMER headquarters and since 2007, lecturer at the Department of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen. Head of department for care programs at BARMER GEK since 2010.