Prof. Dr. Rainer Görges studied human medicine at the Free University of Berlin until 1988. He was licensed to practice medicine (State of Berlin) in 1988. From 1989 to 1997, he worked as an Assistant Doctor, among others, at the university hospitals in Lübeck, Berlin and Mainz. In 1991, he obtained his doctorate in the field of experimental thyroid research. In 1997, he was recognized as a specialist in nuclear medicine. Since 1997, he has been a Senior Physician at the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine at the University Hospital Essen (as well as Deputy Director in 2000–2003). In 2004, he joined the Duisburg group practice for nuclear medicine in Sonnenwall (with continued involvement in the research and teaching of the chair for nuclear medicine at the University Hospital Essen). In 2012, he was appointed as an Associate Professor of nuclear medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen.