Medical training and professional experience

• Medical studies in Würzburg/Germany and San Francisco/USA (1977 – 1984) 
• Doctoral dissertation (Dr.med.) in medicine, magna cum laude (University of Würzburg/Germany) (1986) 
• Diploma in Public Health (Basel/Switzerland, Marseille/France) (1995) 
• Specialist in general medicine, Bonn and Mönchengladbach/Germany (1987 – 1992) 
• Specialist in psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine, Düsseldorf and Cologne/Germany (2014 – 2019) 
• Private practice for psychotherapy and coaching since 2019 

Coaching and Organisational Development

Training

• Coaching training in psychodynamic organizational development and business coaching at the POP Institute, Düsseldorf/Germany (2017 -2019) (Institute Psychodynamic Organization Development + Human Resource Management (POP), Düsseldorf/Germany. (the training is certified by the top German Coaching Association DBVC and the IOBC) 

• PhD in Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Tilburg/Netherlands, with a thesis on Appreciative Inquiry in organizational development (2011) 

• Facilitator for Appreciative Inquiry (NTL Institute, USA, Great Britain) (2006 – 2008)

Professional Experience

For 20 years I worked in international cooperation in South and Central Asia (1994 – 2014)

Focus: health promotion and participatory organizational development (community empowerment).
Development of state and civil society structures for health promotion. 

India:

• Volunteer doctor in Kolkata (1986) (with German Doctors, www.german-doctors.de/en/)
• Long-term Voluntary consultant of a tuberculosis program in West Bengal (1994 – 2000) (SHIS, http://shisourstory.com/history/) 

Bangladesh (1994 – 2000):

• Development of grassroots organizations (with NETZ-Bangladesch eV and CIM and DASCOH /Swiss Red Cross). 
• I co-founded NETZ eV in 1989 (bangladesch.org/en)

Kyrgyzstan (with Swiss Red Cross, 2001 – 2014) :

• Development and establishment of the national strategy and program for health promotion (“Community Action for Health – Program”) (WHO brief on the program here: https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/05-04-2018-kyrgyzstan-empowers-communities-to-participate-in-improving-health)
• Construction of hospitals 
• Development of the national strategy for hospital hygiene and waste management

Publications

• More than 20 scientific publications in the fields of public health, community empowerment, organizational development, and appreciative inquiry. 

Awards

• Order of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic (2004) 
• Letter of thanks from the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (2014) 
• Honorary Citizen of Kyrgyz Provinces, Districts, and Cities (Naryn and Talas oblast, Jumgal, Ak-Tala, Karabura rayons, Naryn City)
• Certificate of honor from the governors of the Kyrgyz provinces of Naryn and Talas (2003, 2010) 
• First prize in the CHNRI International Essay Competition 2009 (Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative competition) for the best contribution of research that has led to policy decisions to improve child health and/or nutrition at a national or global level over the last 20 years. My paper detailed our research and advocacy on introducing iron supplements to combat anemia in Kyrgyzstan: “Introducing Sprinkles in Kyrgyzstan: From People’s Mandate to National Policy” 
• Finalist in the Ashoka Changemaker competition “Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation” with the entry “Power from Below: Test Kits in the Hands of Retailers Pressure Producers to Iodized Salt in Kyrgyzstan” (2010) 

Teaching

• Lecturer in the Master’s course in Public Health at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (2016 – 2020)
• Lecturer in the course on Health Care Management in Tropical Countries of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Swiss-TPH, Basel/Switzerland (2015 – 2020)
• Lecturer at the POP Institute, “Psychodynamic Organizational Development Personnel Management Düsseldorf eV” (since 2019)

Memberships

• Medical Association North Rhine/Germany 
• DBVC (German Federal Association for Coaching) 
• IOBC (International Organization for Business Coaching) 
• POP Institute, “Psychodynamic Organizational Development and Personnel Management Düsseldorf eV” 
• Association for Psychosomatic Medicine, eV Düsseldorf 
• NETZ-Bangladesh, “NETZ Partnership for Development and Justice eV” (https://bangladesch.org)

Interests

Music is a major interest of mine. I sang in the Cologne Chamber Choir under Peter Neumann for 10 years where I learned the principles of historical performance practice of baroque music. In Kyrgyzstan, I founded the Bishkek Chamber Choir and the Bishkek Baroque Orchestra and performed Bach cantatas with them for the first time in Kyrgyzstan. I conducted the Central Asian premiere of J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion on Good Friday 2006 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.