Dr. Kowark is consultant of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital Bonn in Germany. She is a graduate of the Medical faculty in Aachen in Germany and completed her Anesthesiology residency in the University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. She is member of the Scientific Subcommittee for Geriatric Anesthesiology of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care