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	Training & Experience	15th June, 1988 - 30th September, 1991 Postdoctoral fellow in the Dept. of Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetology at the University Hospital Freiburg, Germany 1st October, 1991 - 31th December, 1993 Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine I at the University Hospital Regensburg, Germany 1st January, 1994 - 31th December, 1994 Postdoctoral fellowship at Prof. Dr. E. Singer, Pharmacological Institute of the University of Vienna, Austria, sponsored by the Volkswagen-Foundation Since 2nd November, 1994 Specialist in Internal Medicine Since 1st January, 1995 Again engaged in the Department of Internal Medicine I at the University Hospital Regensburg, Germany, as rheumatologist Since February, 1997 Level of Consultant in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Since April, 1997 Head of the Laboratories of the Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Regensburg (together with Werner Falk, Chemist) (the level of Assistant Professor) Since July, 1997 Spokesman of the study group "Neuroendocrinoimmunology" of the German Society of Immunology Since November, 1997 In the steering committee of the German Endocrine Brain Immune Network (GEBIN) January 1999, 2nd position on the applicants list for an Associate Professorship of Clinical Immunology of the University of Leipzig, Germany Since January, 1999 Member of the Steering Committee of the Study Group "Neuroendocrine Immune Interactions in Rheumatic Diseases" of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Since January 2001, Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa Since July, 2001, Re-election as a spokesman of the study group "Neuroendocrinoimmunology" of the German Society of Immunology September 2001 - September 2003, Spokesman of all study groups of the German Society of Immunology, as such member of the Advisory Board Since 1st October 2001, Associate Professor of Experimental Medicine at the Department of Internal Medicine I of the University of Regensburg Since September 2001, Member of the Steering Committee of the European Study Group "Neuroendocrine Immune Basis of the Rheumatic Diseases" Since January 2002- January 2006, Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Endocrinology Since December 2002, Consultant immunologist according to the guidelines of the German Society of Immunology Since January 2003, Member of the Editorial Board of Brain, Behavior and Immunity Since February 2003, Member of the Editorial Board of Journal XX vs. XY, The International Journal of Sex Differences in the Study of Health, Disease and Aging June 2003, 3rd position on the applicants list for the Chair of Medical Immunology of the University of Jena, Germany June 2003, Offer of a Chair of Experimental Rheumatology, Unit of Rheumatology at the University of Leeds (Professor Paul Emery), United Kingdom. Owing to severe financial differences between the English and the German university systems, I was disappointingly unable to take this position. September 2003 - September 2005, Re-election as spokesman of all study groups of the German Society of Immunology, as such member of the Advisory Board since September 2003, Election as spokesman of the German Endocrine Brain Immune Network (GEBIN: www.gebin.org) May 2004, Member of Council of the PsychoNeuroImmunlogy Research Society October 2005, Member of the Editorial Board of World Journal of Gastroenterology Febraury 2006, Member of the Editorial Board of Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology June 2006, Spokesman of a DFG research program (Forschergruppe) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Regensburg with the title "Molecular analysis and interactions in articular tissue - The influence of neuroendocrine immune factors", FOR696, (go to Google and enter FOR696) since September 2006, Member of the Member Ship Committee of the PsychoNeuroimmunology Research Society November 2006, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Neuroimmunomodulation (ISNIM) July 2007, 2nd position on the applicants list for the Chair of Systemic Inflammation Research of the University of Lübeck, Germany December 2007-December 2010, Member of the Editorial Board of Arthritis & Rheumatism January 2008, Member of the Editorial Board of Rheumatology January 2008, Member of the Editorial Board of CortisonSpiegel April 2008, Member of the Scientific Board of the German Lupus Erythematosus Self Aid Group e. V. June 2008, President-Elect of the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS) August 2008, Member of the Editorial Board of Neuroimmunomodulation since January 2009, External Advisor of the PhD School in Biological and Medical Sciences of the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy June 2009 - June 2010, President of the PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society (PNIRS) January 2010, Spokesmen of the DFG research program (Forschergruppe) FOR696/2, approved for the second period until 2013 (compare June 2006), (go to Google and enter FOR696) since March 2010, External Advisory Board of the Division of Graduate Studies of the Faculty of Medicine - University of Coimbra, Portugal April - September 2010, Sabbatical Leave, University of California San Diego, Division of Rheumatology Allergy & Immunology, Dept. of Medicine


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