Chair of the Section of Sports Cardiology of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC-ESC), President of the Austrian Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation, former president of the Austrian Society of Sports Medicine, Former chair and current nucleus member of the Working group on Cardiac Rehabilitation and Sports Cardiology from the Austrian Society of Cardiology, Member of the Committee on Sports Medicine of the Austrian Football Association, Consultant of the Austrian Heart Foundation, Former chair of the Working group on Sports Cardiology from the German Society of Cardiology and Member of the Science Committee of the German Society of Sports Medicine.

He has more than 300 manuscripts, more than 30 book chapters and 5 books.