He coordinates the special outpatient clinic for musician medicine at the University Hospital of Düsseldorf.
He completed courses in choral conducting with Herbert Schernus (Cologne) and Eric Ericson (Stockholm).
[3] In 1991, Goertz founded the jazz choir of the Hochschule Niederrhein, which he conducted until its disbandment in 2003 and with which he performed numerous concerts at home and abroad.
[4] At the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Goertz worked as a lecturer in interpretive analysis, orchestral repertoire and choral conducting.
[8] In 2009, he presented his doctoral thesis on "Strategies of an anxiety-relieving music accompanying therapy during cardiac catheter examinations" for the degree of Dr. rer.