As an employee at Hanover Medical School, Dept. of Paediatrics, I had a purely clinical assignment (at least since my first research project in 1990 was finished). However, I have always felt that working at a medical university is an obligation to also develop clinical-academic activities.

Numerous, mostly smaller studies and research projects have been developed, which I present here in chronological descending order. In each case I describe in two or three sentences what it was about and which publications resulted from the respective projects (see linked pdf-files).

For these 25 years of clinical-academic work there is one "trait" that may characterize my way of doing research: instead of bringing topics that are in "fashion" in my own psychologic field into the field of medicine, I have always endeavoured to take up the (psychological aspects of) problems that can be found in clinical everyday work and to work on them in depth within the framework of my/our (mostly modest) possibilities.

This has led to a great variety of research questions and topics. From a conventional perspective of academic careerism you would probably think: this person didn't know what he wanted or he "got bogged down". What a mistake!

•     2012-2015
      Women with cystic fibrosis (CF) as mothers. You may also be interested in an
      authorized translation of a booklet for women with CF who consider motherhood.
      The questionnaire that we designed for the purpose of the study is in German, only.
       However, this English description may give you an impression of it.
       We also made an extended abstract refering to the book that contains most of the
       study results, but has been published only German.
• 2007-2013
      Disease-specific measurement of patient satisfaction
•     2007-2008
      Psychiatric comorbidity and screening in CF
•     2005
      Information needs of parents of children suffering from juvenile
      idiopathic arthritis (rheumatism)
•     2004
      Shyness and social anxiety among minors with CF
•     2001
      Lung transplantation in early adulthood
•     2000-2001
      Fear of / measures against infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA)
•     2000
      Information needs of adolescents suffering from juvenile
      idiopathic arthritis (rheumatism)
•     1998
      Childhood overweight and obesity
•     1995-1996
      Home i.v. antibiotic therapy for CF
•     1995-1996
      Chronically ill adolescents and their transition to adulthood (Expertise)
•     1990-1991
      Transfer of adult CF patients from paediatric to adult care
•     1990
      Nationwide survey on psychosocial care at paediatric Depts of university hospitals
•     1989-1994
      Supplementary nutrition via percutanous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in CF
•     1987-1990:
      Implementation of psychosocial care for cystic fibrosis (CF) in Germany