Current position

Head of the Cardiology Service, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, LMU University of Munich, Germany. Founder of www.EKGService.de

Education

1990-1995 Veterinary School, University of Munich 1996-1999 Resident in Small Animal Internal Medicine, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland 07/1999-06/2000 Resident in Small Animal Internal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of GA, Athens, USA 11/2000 Doctoral thesis, Title: Dr. med vet 07/2000-07/2001 Resident in Small Animal Internal Medicine, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland 08/2001-08/2003 Resident in Cardiology, VMTH, University of California, Davis, USA 09/2003 Diplomate ECVIM-CA (Internal Medicine) 10/2004 Addendum Cardiologie, Landestierärztekammer Bayern, Germany 07/2005 Diplomate ACVIM (Cardiology) 09/2006 Diplomate ECVIM-CA (Cardiology)

Research Interests

• Feline cardiomyopathies – new and current diagnostics, therapy, genetic testing
• Dobermann Cardiomyopathy – genetic testing, new and advanced diagnostics, therapy studies Biomarker
• New echocardiographic methods: TVI, strain, strain rate, 3D/4D ultrasound
• Interventional cardiology
• Mitral valve – therapy studies

Awards

• Swiss Veterinary Association (SVK): Award for the best young researcher scientific work in 2001
• European College for Veterinary Internal Medicine (ECVIM-CA) in 2003: 2nd price for the best overall scientific abstract
• European Society for Veterinary Cardiology (2003): best scientific abstract in Cardiology

Other

• Member of the ECVIM-CA Credential Committee
• Member of the ACVIM Constitutional Committee (Cardiology)
• Reviewer for multiple international journals
• Residency Program Director Cardiology (ACVIM)