Experience:

? Current: Honorary secretary of EuroELSO

? 2019: Honorary fellowship of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation

? 2018: Honorary member of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology

? 2015: Chairman of 4th International EuroELSO Congress in Regensburg/Germany

? since 2014: Member of the Executive Committee of International ECMOnet

? since 2011: Member of the Steering Committee EURO ELSO, Devices and Techniques Committee Chairman

? 2012: Habilitation "Organ protection by extracorporeal organ replacement in severe adult respiratory failure"

? since 2003: Consultant of Pneumology

? since 2002: Consultant of Intensive Care Medicine, Head of the Intensive Care Unit

? since 1997: Member of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Internal Medicine II, current Director Prof. Dr. L. Maier, former Director Prof. Dr. G. Riegger, University Hospital Regensburg

? 1989 – 1997: Internship, SHO and registrar in Surgery and Internal Medicine in the Community Hospitals of Waldsassen and Waldmünchen,

? 1982 – 1989: Medical School Friedrich–Alexander–Universit?t, Erlangen, Germany, University College Dublin, Ireland

Clinical and research focus:

? His special professional interests include the treatment of severe acute lung failure and the management of patients post resuscitation. 

? Since 1996 his department is engaged in the optimization of miniaturized ECMO devices in use for severe ARDS, circulatory failure and CO2 removal. A focus of research is set on a better understanding of complications of ECLS.

Key published article:

? Long-Term Survival in Adult Patients With Severe Acute Lung Failure Receiving Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation