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Vice President of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Awarded the Rudolf Schön Prize of the Society of Friends of the Medical University of Hanover in 1998 Appointment to the Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1998 (professorship) Awarded the Ernst Derra Prize of the German Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in 1995