| 1994 | Dr. oec. HSG, University of St.Gallen |
| 1997-1999 | Visiting Assisstant Professor, Columbia University, New York |
| since 1999 | Co-founder and Chairman; Director for Marketing, Planning and Control, Wavecall SA, Lausanne/Amsterdam |
| 2000-2001 | Managing Director, Wavecall BV, Amsterdam |
| 2001-2004 | Co-founder, Hannover School of Health Management, Hannover |
| since 2001 | Part-time Tenured Professor, Medical University of Hannover |
| 2002 | Guest Lecturer, Columbia University, New York |
| 2004-2007 | Managing Director, German Managed Care Association, Berlin |
| since 2007 | President, German Managed Care Association, Berlin |
| since 2009 | Managing Partner, College-M Deutschland, Berlin |
| 2011 | Founder, InaV - Privates Institut für angewandte Versorgungsforschung GmbH, Berlin |
| 1997 | General Practitioner |
| 1998-2010 | Staff Representative, National Union of Municipal Employees (GdG), released from duties |
| 1999-2006 | Member, Council of the Vienna Medical Association, Vienna |
| 2001-2007 | Chair, Personnel Group Committee of Doctors, National Union of Municipal Employees |
| 2002 | Degree Programme, Hospital Management, WU Vienna University of Business and Economics, Vienna |
| 2003 | Master of Advanced Studies (MAS), Health Management Programme, Danube University Krems |
| 2003-2006 | Specialist Adviser to the General Committee, Vienna Medical Association |
| 2003-2010 | Chair, Doctors' Working Group, ÖGB Austrian Trade Union Federation |
| 2004-2012 | Vice-President, BSA Association of Social Democrat University Graduates, Intellectuals and Artists |
| 2004-2011 | Chair, Austrian Social Democrat Doctors' Group |
| 2005-2009 | Women's Chair, BSA Association of Social Democrat University Graduates, Intellectuals and Artists |
| 2006-2014 | Spokeswoman Health (until 2013), and Spokeswoman Social Affairs (from 2013), Parliamentary Social Democratic Party, Austrian Parliament |
| 2007-2010 | Deputy Chair, Personnel Group Committee of Doctors, National Union of Municipal Employees |
| 2009-2014 | Vice-President, ÖGB Austrian Trade Union Federation |
| 2011-2014 | Deputy Chair, Austrian Social Democrat Doctors' Group |
| since 2014 | Austrian Federal Minister of Health |
| 1995 | Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, Graz University of Technology |
| 1998-1999 | Research Fellowship at the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, FWF-Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship |
| 1999 | Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification - Habilitation in Biomedical Engineering commissioned by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz |
| since 2002 | Full Professor for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics, UMIT - University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol |
| 2002-2004 | Vice Rector at UMIT- University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol |
| 2004-2008 | Rector of UMIT- University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol |
| 2006-2008 | CEO of UMIT - University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tyrol |
| 2006-2008 | Chair of the Board of Rectors of the Austrian Private Universities |
| since 2008 | Member of the Provincial Government (Health, Sciences and Traffic), Tyrol, Innsbruck |
