Posts and Affiliations
Clinical Director – Multidisciplinary Breast Unit Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Germany
Lead Breast Cancer Research Program, Kliniken Essen-Mitte
Executive Board Member of the AGO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie)
Additional Roles
ESMO Faculty – Breast Cancer
Member of AWO Gyn – Commission for plastic and reconstructive surgery
Speaker of the AGIMed – Commission for Integrative Medicine of the AGO
Member of the Organ Commission Mamma of the AGO
Scientific Director of the WSG study group
Global PI, Head of clinical investigations and trials 27
IDMC´s, Steering Boards national and international
Scientific committee of international and national symposia in breast cancer and surgical oncology
Organization Memberships
Memberships: European Society of Medical Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology,
European Academy of Senology, German Cancer Society, German Society of Gynecology and
Obstetrics, Working Group for Gynecological Oncology, German Society of Senology,
Publications
Peer reviewed Publications: 322
First/Senior Author: 38
h-Index/i10-Index 66/232
Congress Abstracts/Proceedings: 443
Books/Book Chapter: 59
Invited oral Presentations/Lectures: 1032
Read moreEducation
09 / 2004 – 07 / 2006 Movie Director School, ANT1 Movie School Athens, Greece, Degree “Television Director”, grade point average: B
09 / 2006 – 08 / 2008 Medical School, Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary, Medical preliminary examination (Physikum), grade point average: A
10 / 2008 – 05 / 2013 Medical School, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, State examination in medicine, grade point average: A
02/ 2009 – 02/2012 Institute of Pharamcology and Toxicology I, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, Doctoral thesis, grade: summa cum laude
05 / 2018 Basic and advanced course in German drug law and GCP, Clinical Trials Unit, Medical Center - University of Freiburg
01 / 2019 Board certification: Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology
03 / 2020 Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Habilitation (Postdoctoral lecture qualification)
09 / 21 – 08 / 23 MHBA, Friedrich Alexander University, Nuernberg, Germany
07 / 2022 Completion of ISO 9001:2015 training, Nicosia, Cyprus
Professional Career
09 / 2013 – 01 / 2019 Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Residency
07 / 2017 – 07 / 2020 Bertha-Ottenstein programme, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Clinician Scientist
Since 06 / 2019 Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Consultant
01 / 2021 – 12 / 2022 Bertha-Ottenstein programme, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany, Advanced Clinician Scientist
01 / 2021 – 12 / 2021 Head of the section “Interventional Radiation Oncology”, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany
Since 01 / 2022 Medical Center University of Freiburg, Department of Radiation Oncology, Germany, Prostate cancer research group leader
Since 01 / 2022 German Medical Institute, Limassol, Cyprus, Vice Medical Director
Professional Memberships and Distinctions
2010 Sanofi-Aventis poster prize, Annual meeting of the German Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2010, Mainz, Germany
2017 Poster prize, Annual meeting of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) 2017, Berlin, Germany
2019 Poster prize, Uro-Oncological Symposium 2019, Magdeburg, Germany
2020 Invited member of the German expert panel for prostate cancer of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO)
2020 Herman-Holthusen Award, German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO)
2021 Invited member of the ESTRO-ACROP guideline committee for prostate cancer
2021 Best Abstract, EMUC congress 2021, Athens, Greece
2023 Annual ARO study price for the HypoFocal-SBRT study from the German Cancer Foundation
2023 Invited member of the ESTRO focus group “Urology”
Read moreProfessional experience:
04.2009 – 04.2013: Resident in the Department for Radiation Oncology, Klinikum Offenbach
05.2013 – 12. 2015: Senior physician in the Department for Radiation Oncology, Klinikum Offenbach
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