is a pediatrician and general practitioner in a multidisciplinary group practice in Bad Soden-Salmünster. He was state chairman of the Hartmannbund Hesse, and first chairman of the Hesse Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, of which he has been honorary chairman since 2001. He has worked on various subcommittees and working groups of the Federal Joint Committee (including prevention, medicines) and is a member of the BMG's positive list commission.