Nijmegen Medical School (79-86)
Internship Academical Hospital Maastricht (86-87)
Nieuwegein Cardiothoracic Residency (87-93)
Transplantation fellowship Houston, Texas, USA (89-90)
PhD Utrecht, Circulatory assist prior to heart transplantation (1995)
Staff Cardiothoracic surgeon University Medical Center Utrecht (1994-2003)
Chief and Head of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery University Medical Center Cologne (since 2003)
specialization in HLHS and Norwood operations
pediatric lung/trachea operations and reconstructions
neonatal heart surgery
adolescent cardiac surgery
long-term follow-up pediatric operations
antegrade cerebral perfusion
cardiopulmonary transplantation
Circulatory assist devices and total art. heart