Employees
Medical Director
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Christoph Friederich
Medical Director (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders, Experimental Research for Psychosomatic Diseases, Health Care Research, Functional Diagnostics of the Autonomic Nervous System
Chief Senior Physician
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Prof. (apl.) Dr. med. Christoph Nikendei, MME
Chief Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Posttraumatic stress disorders, secondary traumatization, care for mentally burdened refugees and asylum seekers, autobiographical memory in psychosomatic disorders, medical didactics, communicative and procedural skills in medical students, psychotherapy research, competence-based training of psychotherapists in education, stress and burnout at work, acquisition of health competence.
Managing Senior Physicians
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PD Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Psych. Ulrike Dinger-Ehrenthal
Managing Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Psychotherapieforschung, Depression und Persönlichkeitsstörungen, Klinische Bindungsforschung
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Prof(apl). Dr. med. Jonas Tesarz
Managing Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Specialist for internal medicine
Focus
Influence of stress and mental trauma on pain perception and central pain modulation; Computational modeling and predictive coding of pain; Psychological treatment approaches for chronic pain and functional disorders; Pain and pain treatment in high performance athletes
Senior Physicians
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apl. Prof. Dr. med. Christiane Bieber
Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Shared Decision Making; Doctor-patient relationship and communication research; Chronic pain; Psycho-oncology
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Dr. med. M.Sc. Psych. Markus Haun
Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Mental health services research; Primary care mental health; Systematic Reviews/Meta-Analyses; Psycho-oncology
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PD Dr. med. Imad Maatouk
Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Psycho-oncological care and intervention research; Health-related quality of life; Mental health and psychotherapy in old age; Mental comorbidity in chronic diseases; Prevention of mental illness at the workplace
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PD Dr. med. Jobst-Hendrik Schultz (MME)
Senior Physician (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Psychosomatic consultation and liaison service
Focus
Psycho-cardiological comorbidities (clinical research and basic research), research in medical education; (doctor-patient communication, assessment, faculty development, peer assisted learning)
Lead psychologists
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Dipl. Psych. Mechthild Hartmann
Lead psychologist (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics –Neuenheim Site)
Focus
Health services research; Family Medicine; Psychosomatics in medical conditions; Methods of psychosomatic research
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apl. Prof. Dr. sc. hum. Beate Wild
Lead psychologist (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics –Neuenheim Site)
Dipl. Math. Dipl. Psych., Leading Biometrician
Focus
obesity; anorexia; biopsychosocial health care needs in the elderly; mental comorbidity in the elderly; loneliness; effects of chronic stress; systemic therapy; process research, time series analyses; clinical studies in psychosocial medicine
Research Fellow
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PD Dr. phil. Dipl. Psych. Joe Simon
Research Fellow (Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Focus
Functional neuroimaging, eating disorders, obesity, experimental methods in psychosomatic reasearch, gut-brain axis, hormonal satiety regulation