1990 Abitur (University-entrance diploma in Germany)
1990 - 1992 Nurse school, Krankenhaus Rummelsberg
1992 – 1998 Study of human medicine, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
1998 Intern (surgery) in University of Istanbul, Turkey
23.06.2000 Graduation to Dr. med., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg: „Heterotope transplantation of the aortic valve at the rat – A model for the calcification of the bioprothetic heart valve at the human beeing and its prevention by alcalic citrates” (Adviser: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. W. Hohenberger)
10.12.1998- 09.06.2000 First-year resident at the Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Director: Prof. Dr. med. W. Hohenberger)
10.06.2000 Licence to practise
01.07.2000- 31.12.2000 Department of traumatology, Klinikum Neumarkt i.d.Opf. (Director: Prof. Dr. med. E. Scola)
01.01.2001- 09.05.2005 resident physician at the Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Erlangen (Direktor: Prof. Dr. med. W. Hohenberger)
10.05.2005 Specialist registrar for general surgery
12.01.2006 postdoctoral lecture qualification: Value of the surgery inside the multimodal therapy concepts in managing benign and malignant dieseases of the liver (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg)
09.02.2006 Assistant professor for surgery
01.02.2007-31-05.2007 Hospitation in Izmir (Ege University, Prof. Dr. H. Kaplan and Dokuz Eylül University, Prof. I. Astarcioglu): Living-Donor- Liver Transplantation (LDLT), Turkey
01.08.2007 Senior physician at the Klinik für Visceral-, Transplantations-, Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie (Director: Prof. Dr. med. J. Hauss), Universitätsklinikum Leipzig AöR
16.07.2008 medical specialist for visceral surgery
02/2008 Head of certificated center for colorectal cancer of region Leipzig
01.06.2009- 30.08.2009 Provisional Head of Klinik für Visceral-, Thorax- und -Tumorchirurgie, Albertinen-Krankenhaus Hamburg
01.11.2009 - 31.03.2014 Head of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Transplant Surgery and managing senior physician at the Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Erlangen (Director: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. W. Hohenberger)
21.02.2014 Professor for Surgery, Medizinische Fakultät, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
01.04.2014- 31.03.2016 Deputy Director, Universitätsklinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie Oldenburg (Director: Prof. Dr. med. H.R. Raab)
01.04.2016- 31.08.2016 Head of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Transplant- and Oncological Surgery, Florence Nightingale University Hospital, Bilim University Istanbul, Turkey
01.09.2016- 30.09.2019 Deputy director and head of department, Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie, Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg (Wümme), Germany
01.10.2019 - 28.02.2022 Deputy director and head of department for Hepato-Pancreato- Biliary Surgery, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany
Since 01.03.2022 Head of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Gastrointestinal Oncological Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center Hospital (in Affiliation with JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE), Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey