Joachim Seybold studied medicine at Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany and obtained his MD in 1996. He worked at the Imperial College in London in lung research before specializing in Internal Medicine at Charité in 2003. He also holds an MBA from the University of Bradford (UK, 2004). Since 2010 he is appointed as the Deputy Medical Director of Charité. Beyond that, Dr. Seybold is the coordinator of Charité hilft – a project for the medical care of refugees at various locations in the city of Berlin. Together with up to 40 colleagues from Charité he set up outpatient clinics in refugee shelters, the health screening program for newly arrived refugees, the clinic for refugees with psychiatric disorders, and the vaccination program. More than 68,000 refugees have been treated so far within the Charité hilft program.