Birthdate: May 5, 1964 Birthplace: Dusseldorf, Germany Civil Status: Married Languages: English, German, and Spanish
Current Position Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 12/2004 - present
Staff physician, Neurology Section, VA North Texas Health Care Systems, Medical Service, 07/2005 - present
Professional Experience Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, 10/2003-05/2005
Medical Education M.D.: Free University of Berlin Medical School, Germany, 1993 M.D. Thesis: Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Hypertension, Nephrology and Genetics, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1994 Ph.D.: Department of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands, (2006) Internship Surgery Transitional Internship, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1994 Internal Medicine Preliminary Internship, University of Washington, Seattle 1996-1997
Residency Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1997-2000
Postdoctoral Fellowships Neuroimmunology, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, 1994-1996 Neuroimmunology, University of California, San Francisco, 2000 - 2003
Licensure California medical license (active, No. A75979), 2001 Texas medical license (active, No. M0936), 2005 Washington State medical license (active, No. MD00039298), 2000 German medical license (active) 1995 South African limited registration (inactive) 1993
Board Certification Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (active, No. 52130), 2003
Society Membership Alumni Club of the Charite (ACDC), Humboldt-University Berlin, 2005 - present American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 1995 - present American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1999 - present American Association of Immunologists (AAI), 1999 - present American Medical Association (AMA), 2000 - present Clinical Immunology Society (CIS), 2003 - present Dallas County Medical Society (DCMS), 2005 - present International Association of Obituarists (IAO), 2003 - present International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI), 2004 - present Texas Medical Association (TMA), 2005 - present The Berlin Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (BGPN), 2006 - present
National Scientific Committee Membership National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) Scientific Advisory Committee, Lone Star Chapter, 2004 - present
Other High school exchange student with the American Field Service (AFS), Instituto Salesiano San Miguel, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1981-1982 Military Service, Cologne, Germany, 1984-1986
