Anil Batra

Anil Batra (born June 15, 1963 in Heilbronn-Sontheim ) is a German psychiatrist and university professor. His focus is addiction medicine , especially nicotine addiction and its treatment.

Life

Batra studied medicine at the University of Tübingen from 1982 to 1989 , and received his doctorate in 1989 on the subject of "Possibilities of echographic gray value analysis in pathologically enlarged spleens".

He has been a specialist in psychiatry since 1995 and a senior physician since 1999.

He completed his habilitation in 1999 and has been head of the addiction medicine and addiction research section and deputy medical director of the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Tübingen since 2008.

Since 1999 he has been chairman of the Scientific Working Group on Tobacco Weaning (WAT), and from 2001 to 2006 he was a board member of SRNT Europe ( Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco ).

Since 2009 he has been head of the addiction psychiatry department of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN), and since 2010 President of the German Society for Addiction Research and Addiction Therapy (DG-Sucht).

Batra is currently in charge of the creation of the S3 guideline "Screening, diagnosis and treatment of harmful and dependent tobacco consumption" of the Association of Scientific Medical Societies (AWMF).

Works

with Oliver Bilke-Hentsch: Praxisbuch Addiction: Therapy of addiction diseases in adolescence and adulthood. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-13-149201-2 .
Therapy of tobacco addiction. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 108 (33), 2011, pp. 555-564, doi: 10.3238 / arztebl.2011.0555 .
with Gerhard Buchkremer : No smoking! Successfully exit in six steps. 3. Edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021569-6 .
with Reinhard Wassmann and Gerhard Buchkremer: Behavioral Therapy: Basics - Methods - Areas of Application. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2006, ISBN 3-13-117782-9 .
as editor: Tobacco addiction: scientific basis and treatment. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-17-018617-5 .
Anil Batra, Gerhard Buchkremer: Smoking cessation: a guide for therapists. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-017614-5 .
with Andreas Heinz : Neurobiology of alcohol and nicotine addiction. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017250-6 .
as editor: The therapeutic diversity in the treatment of depression. Springer, Berlin et al. 2001, ISBN 3-540-42072-X .
Tobacco addiction: biological and psychosocial development conditions and therapeutic options. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-7985-1212-4 .

Web links

Section of Addiction Medicine and Addiction Research at the University of Tübingen
Vita and lecture , SWR Tele-Akademie , June 10, 2012

Individual evidence

↑ Anil Batra new president of DG-Sucht ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DGPPN, December 2, 2010 (accessed July 15, 2012) @1@ 2
↑ Coordination of AWMF guidelines for DG addiction (accessed on July 15, 2012)
↑ AWMF - Registered guideline project (accessed on July 15, 2012)

personal data
SURNAME	Batra, Anil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn-Sontheim

[1] Anil Batra new president of DG-Sucht ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DGPPN, December 2, 2010 (accessed July 15, 2012) @1@ 2

[2] Coordination of AWMF guidelines for DG addiction (accessed on July 15, 2012)

[3] AWMF - Registered guideline project (accessed on July 15, 2012)