Board of Medicine, Mühlenkreiskliniken AöR. Studied medicine and health sciences. Specialist in surgery at the University Hospital of Kiel from 1995-2005. Afterwards, he headed the organizational development, project and quality management department at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. Since 2007, head of medicine at Mühlenkreiskliniken AöR, since 2008 also managing director of MVZ Mühlenkreiskliniken GmbH.