Since 1999, he has been responsible for the focus on patient orientation and health education at the Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research at the Hannover Medical School (MHH). She has been in charge of the supplementary course in population medicine and public health at the Center for Public Health at the MHH since 1993. Her research focuses on evaluating the quality of healthcare, researching and further developing patient and user orientation and promoting social skills, such as communication, presentation and moderation techniques. Career: 1992: Doctorate on the subject of “Women and early cancer detection” at the Hanover Medical School. For her doctoral thesis she was awarded the MHH doctoral award and the Lower Saxony Cancer Society sponsorship award. In 2001 she completed her habilitation on the subject of “Empowerment and the users of the German healthcare system” and received the venia legendi in public health at the Hannover Medical School. 1981-1988: Studies at the University. Hildesheim educational sciences, sociology and psychology.