Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Friederich

Medical Director of the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Medical Director of the Clinical Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Düsseldorf; Head of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the LVR Clinic Düsseldorf - Clinics of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.

Provisional Medical Director at the LVR Clinic Essen – Clinics and Institute of the University Duisburg-Essen

Senior consultant and permanent representative of the Medical Director at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Senior physician on the psychotherapy ward and day clinic at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Resident in Psychosomatic  Medicine and Psychotherapy, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

In-service training as a medical psychotherapist at the Heidelberg Institute for Depth Psychology (HIT)

Resident in Internal Medicine, Departments of Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology, University Hospital Heidelberg

Internship at the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg

Chair of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg

Chair of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.

Deputy chair of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Habilitation: "Clinical and neuroscientific investigations on the spectrum of the specific psychopathology of eating disorders".

Head of the Eating Disorders Research Group at the Department of Psychosomatic and General Clinical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital

One-year research stay at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College University, London

Medical Dissertation

Topic: "Mental illnesses in medical inpatients - prevalence and therapy needs".

Hans Roemer Prize of the German College of Psychosomatic Medicine

Hilde Bruch Research Prize of the German Society for Eating Disorders

Christina Barz Research Prize

Board member of the German Society for Eating Disorders (DGESS)

Board Member of the Association of Psychosomatic Hospitals and Hospital Departments (VKPD)

Board member of the German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychotherapy (DGPM)

Specialist for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy

Specialist for Internal Medicine

DFG, BMBF (KN Adiposity, KN Eating Disorders), German Cancer Aid, Foundations, intramural research funding