Awards
- 30th Annual Miriam Lemberg Professorship (honorary professorship from the University of Miami)
- Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award, AHA (winner)
- Project grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award (finalist twice)
- Jay N. Cohn New Investigator Integrative Physiology/Clinical Award, HFSA (winner)
- Samuel A. Levine Clinical Young Investigator Award, AHA (winner)
Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
- ACC Heart House Myocarditis Roundtable Planning Committee Member
- Member of the Board of Directors, Myocarditis Foundation
- European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie
- Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung
- American Society of Echocardiography