Frank Schneider (doctor)

Frank Schneider

Frank Schneider (born January 22, 1958 in Wetzlar ) is a German psychiatrist and psychologist , medical director and chairman of the board of the Düsseldorf University Hospital (UKD) and professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. He is currently on leave of absence from the university professor for psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics at RWTH Aachen University and was director at the Institute for Neurosciences and Medicine at Forschungszentrum Jülich .

Life

Schneider studied psychology from 1977 to 1983 and medicine from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Giessen . After working in Tübingen from 1986 to 1991, Frank Schneider worked as part of a research stay from 1991 to 1993 at the University of Pennsylvania , with which he continues to maintain close scientific contacts, including many years as Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and spokesman for the International Graduate School 1328 of German Research Foundation . He has submitted over 500 scientific papers, including numerous specialist books and guides.

After a substitute professor for clinical psychology at the University of Tübingen in 1995 , Schneider was offered a position at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Düsseldorf in 1996 . In 2003 Schneider took over the management of the clinics for psychiatry and psychotherapy as well as those for psychosomatics and psychotherapeutic medicine at the Aachen University Hospital , which were merged in 2010 as a clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics. He rejected calls to the directorates of the psychiatric university clinics in Rostock and Frankfurt. From 2016 to 2018 he was managing director of the newly founded JARA institute: "Brain structure function relationships: Decoding the human brain at systemic levels", jointly established by Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University. From 2011 to 2018 he was Vice Dean of the Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University. He was also the founding chairman of the Association of German Chair Holders for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (LIPPs) and Vice President of the German Society for Biological Psychiatry (DGBP).

Schneider was President of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN). There he worked intensively on coming to terms with the history of German psychiatry under National Socialism. He also founded the DGPPN department “Sports Psychiatry and Psychotherapy”. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Robert Enke Foundation . He is the editor of the scientific journal "Der Nervenarzt", the member body of the DGPPN.

In addition, he was founding director of JARA-BRAIN, a research institute for translational brain research, which is funded as part of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) as part of the RWTH Aachen University's application for the federal and state excellence initiative . He was also the founding director of the JARA umbrella association, the merger of RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich, for a decade. At the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs he was on the Medical Advisory Board for Supply Medicine and he is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Office for Drugs and Medical Devices. He was a deputy executive member of the expert commission for medical malpractice in the North Rhine Medical Association .

Awards (selection)

• 1990: Attempto Prize for Neuroscience, University of Tübingen
• 1990: Research Award of the DGPN Duphar Foundation
• 1995: "Best lecture in the main course in psychology in the 1995 summer semester", representing the interests of psychology students at the University of Tübingen
• 1996: Hans Roemer Prize for the Promotion of Clinical Psychosomatics, German College for Psychosomatic Medicine
• 2005: Baden-Württemberg Health Quality Promotion Prize (2nd prize), Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
• 2008: Research Prize of the German Society for Social Psychiatry
• 2013: Research award on the role of the medical profession in the time of National Socialism, awarded by the German Medical Association, the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, together with Sigrid Falkenstein
• 2015: International Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
• 2015: Against Forgetting - For Democracy
• 2016: Karl Jaspers Visiting Professorship, University of Oldenburg

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• Psychophysiological unspecificity of schizophrenic diseases . Fischer, Stuttgart 1992
• (with Ute Habel) Psychosocial support for victim witnesses in criminal proceedings . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000
• (with Helmut Frister, Dirk Olzen ) Assessment of mental disorders . Springer, Berlin 2006, 4th completely revised. u. actual Edition 2020
• (with Michael von Cranach ) In Memoriam. Memory and responsibility . Exhibition catalog, Springer, Berlin 2010
• (with Sabrina Weber-Papen) Psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy ... in 5 days . Springer, Heidelberg 2010
• (with Thomas Nesseler) Depression in old age. The misunderstood widespread disease . Herbig, Munich 2011
• (with Peter Falkai, Wolfgang Maier) Psychiatry 2020. Perspectives, opportunities, challenges . Springer, Berlin 2011, 2nd completely revised and updated edition: Psychiatrie 2020 plus. Perspectives, opportunities, challenges . Springer, Berlin 2012, [1] (PDF; 3.3 MB)
• (Collaboration) Sigrid Falkenstein : Anna's footsteps: A victim of Nazi “euthanasia” . Herbig, Munich 2012; Short version in simple language: Fun am Reading Verlag, Münster 2015.
• Dementia. The guide for patients and relatives . Herbig, Munich 2012
• Depression in Sports. The guide for athletes, coaches, supervisors and relatives . With a foreword by Teresa Enke. Herbig, Munich 2013
• Borderline: The guide for patients and relatives . Herbig, Munich 2013

As editor

• (with Mathias Bartels, Klaus Foerster and Hans-Jörg Gaertner) Perspectives in Psychiatry. Research - Diagnostics - Therapy . Fischer, Stuttgart 1991
• (with Helmut Frister) Alcohol and culpability. Decision support for doctors and lawyers . Springer, Berlin 2002
• Developments in Psychiatry. Symposium on the occasion of Henning Sass's 60th birthday. Springer, Berlin 2006
• (with Wilhelm Niebling) Mental illnesses in the family doctor's practice . Springer, Heidelberg 2008
• Psychiatry under National Socialism. Memory and Responsibility / Psychiatry under National Socialism. Remembrance and Responsibility . With DVD. Springer, Berlin 2011
• Gerhard Schmidt : Selection in the sanatorium 1939–1945 . New edition with additional texts. Springer, Berlin 2012
• Somehow it turns out differently. Psychiatrists tell . Springer, Berlin 2012
• Positions of Psychiatry . Springer, Berlin 2012
• (with Gereon R. Fink ) Functional magnetic resonance imaging in psychiatry and neurology . Springer, Heidelberg 2007, 2nd completely revised. u. actual 2013 edition
• (with Matthias Bormuth ) Psychiatric anthropology . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2013
• (with Petra Lutz) captured, persecuted, destroyed: Sick and disabled people under National Socialism / registered, persecuted, annihilated: The Sick and the Disabled under National Socialism . Springer, Heidelberg 2014
• Clinic manual for psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy . Springer, Heidelberg 2008, 2nd completely revised. u. actual Edition 2016
• (with Martin Härter and Susanne Schorr) DGPPN, BÄK, KBV, AWMF: National Care Guideline for Unipolar Depression . Springer, Heidelberg 2017
• Specialist knowledge of psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy . Springer, Heidelberg 2012, 2nd completely revised. u. actual Edition 2017
• captured, pursued, destroyed. Sick and handicapped people under National Socialism. The documentation for the exhibition . Springer, Heidelberg 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Frank Schneider on the website of the University Hospital Düsseldorf
• Scientific work by Frank Schneider on PubMed

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Traveling exhibition - Psychiatry under National Socialism - Focal points - DGPPN Society. Retrieved April 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Against Forgetting - For Democracy ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ University of Oldenburg