Member of the Board of Internal Medicine, Psychotherapist, Board-qualified for Psychosocial and Psychosomatic Medicine, Senior registrar and Professor, Div. Psychosomatic Medicine, Dept. Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, CH-4031 Basel, Hebelstr. 2 Studied Medicine in Freiburg (D) and Berlin: 1971-1978; 1978-1979: Institute of Pathology University Bonn ; 1979-1986: training as Internist University Hospital Bonn; 1981-1990: training as psychotherapist with psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapy as main qualifications; PhD about Vagal Activity in Hypertension (1991); change to Basel, Dept. Internal Medicine; Senior Registrar since 1994; Executive Head 1998-2007; Professor of Medicine since 1997. Co-Editor of the standard German textbook: Uexküll, Psychosomatic Medicine, 6th edition 2003; research activities in communication in health care and somatoform disorders; president of European Association for Communication in Health Care www.each.eu.