He is the Chief Physician at Helios Baltic Sea Hospital Damp.
Hospitals
Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
The hospital is proud of its rich past, which goes back over 100 years, as well as the status of a maximum care medical center with exceptionally high success treatment rates.
Treatment of disorders of the cervical spine such as disc herniation, myelopathy or deformity
Treatment of spinal disorders in elderly patients such as spinal canal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, degenerative scoliosis, osteoporotic fractures or spinal metastases
Education
09/11 – 2018 : Principal investigator. Cervical foraminotomy: a randomized clinical trial
09/11 – 2013 : Investigator and industry consultant. A prospective, randomized, multicentre Phase I/II clinical trial to evaluate safety and efficacy of NOVOCART Disc plus autologous disc chondrocyte transplantation (ADCT) in the treatment of nucleotomized and degenerative lumbar discs to avoid secondary disease
04/11 – 2016 : Investigator. Posterior dynamic stabilization versus fusion in the treatment of lumbar degenerative disease [a multi-center RCT]
05/10 – 2016 : Investigator and industry consultant. A prospective, randomized, multi-center study to demonstrate the superiority of the Barricaid to discectomy for primary lumbar disc herniation
04/09 – 2012 : Investigator. A multi-center, post marketing surveillance study to monitor the safety and performance of the Barricaid ARD in the treatment of back and radicular pain caused by primary lumbar disc herniation
01/10 – 2011 : Investigator Long-term outcome of a prospective randomized comparison of cage fusion and iliac crest autograft fusion in patients undergoing anterior cervical discectomy
01/09 – 2010 — Investigator. Long-term outcome after less invasive surgery for decompression of lumbar stenosis : a randomized comparison of unilateral laminotomy, bilateral laminotomy and laminectomy