Awards and Honors
2018-2019 President of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM)
2018 Honorary title “Fellow of the American Respiratory Society”
2017 Honorary membership of the Austrian Society of Pulmonary Medicine (ÖGP)
Since 2015 Chairman of the German Lung Foundation
Since 2014 Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS)
Since 2010 Member/Chair of the Science Committee of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease – GOLD
2009 - 2011 President of the German Respiratory Society
Since 2008 Chairman of the German Asthma and COPD Network
2004-2010 member of the board of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2002 member of the board of directors of "Deutsche Atemwegsliga"
1993 Curt-Dehner-medal 1993 for emphysema research
11/87 - 11/89 grant by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for post doctoral fellow training
1975-82 grant for gifted students, Bayerisches Staatsministerium
für Unterricht und Kultus