Curriculum Vitae

Name: Dr. Thomas Talaska
42 years old, marriged, 3 children
University education Medical faculty, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
(Charité) 1979-1985
Approbation: September 1985
Diplom                          Electron microscopy investigation on rat hippocamus  (1985)
Promotion Virulencemarker and Plasmidscreening in a nosocomial outbreak with Serratia marcescens   (1992)
Further specialisation Microbiology  
1985 Internal  Medicine and Pediatry district hospital Schwedt
1986 Hygieneinstitut Eberswalde (Parasitology)
1986-1989 Bezirkshygieneinstitut Frankfurt (Oder)
1986 Bezirkshygieneinstitut Berlin (Virology,Mycology)
1987 Academy of Science Jena (Virology, Plasmid analysis)
1990 examination as specialist  for microbiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases
1989 assistant medical director of the hygiene institut Frankfurt (Oder)
1991 founding of the Medical investigation office Frankfurt (Oder),
1991-1992 office director
1992-1995 medical superintendent
1993 Course elektron microscopy Medical high school Hannover
since 1994

member of the national working group elektron microscopy  (Chief Dr. Gelderblom, Robert-Koch-Institut)

1990-1993 head of the „ Berufsverband Mikrobiologie Brandenburg“
since 1992 member of the examination board microbiology Brandenburg
since 1993 special expert for microbiology of the chamber of physicians Brandenburg 
since 1993

cooperation with WHO, (Epidemiology of Salmonellosis, Borreliosis)

since 1994 cooperation  with CDC, Division of vector borne diseases, USA (Epidemiology and prevention of tick borne diseases)
1995-1999 cooperation with the university of Shizuoka/Japan  (Borreliosis)
since 2000

cooperation with the Tulane University New Orleans, USA and the Universite´de la Mediterranee´ Marseille, France

since 1995 specialist for microbiology in Frankfurt (Oder)
1999 founding of a special lab for tick borne diseases (Groß Lindow)
2001 member of the working group Hospital Hygiene of the ministery of health of Brandenburg
member of the German Society for hygiene and microbiology ( DGHM )
member of the German Society for the treatment of HIV infected patients
head of the  interdisciplinary adivicing board for Borreliosis Brandenburg

member of the  European Society of Emerging Infections

secretary of the HIV-Project Belize e. V.



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