sentences:  From 1992–1993, he held a fellowship at the Harvard Medical School.Since 1998, Lauterbach has been director of the institute of health economy and clinical epidemiology at the University of Cologne and was appointed adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008.He was a member of the "Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der Entwicklung im Gesundheitswesen" (the council of experts advising the federal government on developments in the German healthcare system) from 1999 until he was elected to the Bundestag in September 2005.