Medical Director of the IMIB, Basel.Dr. med., Master of Public Health (MPH). Studied human medicine at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium and the University of Cologne. Doctorate in 1994 at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research. Training as a specialist in anesthesiology at the hospitals in the city of Cologne and the Vogtareuth treatment center, near Munich. Worked as senior physician at the Center Hospitalier Général d'Annonay in France. After completing an MPH degree at the universities of Basel, Bern and Zurich, he has been working as a medical director at a research institute in Basel since 2002 with a focus on health economics.