He completed his Studies of Medicine from Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany in 1995. Dr. Michael Clinical interests: Diagnostics, surgery and systemic treatment of urological neoplasms; Imaging and differential diagnosis. Dr. Michael Scientific interests include: Comorbidity and competing mortality; Life expectancy and natural history of prostate cancer; Multimodal treatment of genitourinary cancer. Dr. Michael Habilitation is "The prognostic significance of comorbidity in the radical prostatectomy setting", University of Technology, Dresden, Germany:2007.