Personal Data
Family status: married to Anna Maria Kampen, D.D.S.
Languages spoken
- English fluent
- Modern Greek Basic knowledge
University studies
- Studied Biology at University of Bielefeld; “Diploma thesis: Immunohistochemical and transmission electron microscopic analysis of intestinal APUD cells in the mouse”
- 1991-1997 Studied Human Medicine at Christian Albrechts University (CAU), Kiel
- 1992-1996 Researcher at CAU’s Institute of Anatomy (head of department: Prof. Dr. B. Tillmann) in Kiel
- 1997 State medical exam
- 1999 Received medical license
Additional Qualifications
- 1998 Received MD, magna cum laude; Dissertation: “Structural differences in joint cartilage in the human sacroiliac joint”; Advisor: Prof. Dr. B. Tillmann
- 2002 Specialist in nuclear medicine
- 2002 Appointed a medical physics expert
- 2005 Receives Venia legendi (post-doctorate habilitation) in Nuclear Medicine
- 2010 Named to adjunct professorship at the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel campus
Activities
- until 2002 at CAU’s Department of Nuclear Medicine in Kiel (head of department: Prof. Dr. E. Henze)
– Research Assistant and Researcher
– Assistant department head - 2003 Nomination for the Marie Curie Award by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam
- 2004-2006 Deputy director for nuclear medicine of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical Association
- since 2005 Chairman of the North German Society of Nuclear Medicine
- 2005 Received 2nd place “Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award“ from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto
- since 2007 Partner at Spitalerhof Nuclear Medicine Clinic
Membership in scientific associations
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin (Mitglied der AG Therapie)
- Society of Nuclear Medicine (USA)
- European Association of Nuclear Medicine
- Norddeutsche Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin (Vorsitzender)
- Association for the Patient Support and Research in Rheumatic Disease, Bad Bramstedt
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte 1989 – 1994
- Deutsche Anatomische Gesellschaft 1992 – 1998
Career fields
- Palliative pain therapy for patients with multiple skeletal metastases (Sm-153-EDTMP, Re-186-HEDP)
- Nuclear medicine diagnostics for ambiguous inflammatory conditions with antigranulocyte antibody fragments labeled with Tc-99m (LeukoScan) and F18-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET
- In vivo imaging of acute cardiac transplant rejection with probe oligonucleotides labeled with Tc-99m against IL-2 mRNA in a rat model
- Quantitative analysis of glucose uptake via dynamic F18-FDG PET in patients with Metabolic syndrome and specific FABP gene variant
- Nuclear medicine therapy for inflammatory-rheumatic diseases with open radionuclides (radiation synovectomy, Ra-224 for ankylosing spondylitis)
Publications, Lectures, Review activities
- Published 43 academic articles to date, primarily in English (as of 03/2008), about 180 academic and invited lectures (as of 03/2008)
Member of the editorial board (co-editor)
- Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
- Guest editor of “Der Nuklearmediziner” 03/2006
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Consultant to nuclear medicine journals
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- Arthritis and Rheumatism
- Nuclear Medicine
- Der Nuklearmediziner