is a senior physician at the Ulm University Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Ulm and a member of the Institute of Clinical Economics (ICE eV), Ulm. He has an MBA in business administration for physicians; and is a member of the Scientific Working Group on Intensive Care Medicine in the Epidemiology/Ethics Forum and in the Translational Intensive Care Medicine Research Network (TIFOnet) in the Immunology research group.