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 | |
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member of the European Society of Emerging Infections |
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| secretary of the HIV-Project Belize e. V. |