Fritz Henn (psychiatrist)

Fritz A. Henn (born March 26, 1941 in Alden , Pennsylvania ) is an American psychiatrist . From 1994 to 2006 he headed the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim .

Live and act

Prof. Henn, the son of German emigrants, first studied biology , then medicine . In 1981 he received his first full professorship and from 1982 headed several psychiatric clinics and research institutions. Before moving to Germany , he was Director of the Research Institute for Mental Health at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1983 to 1994 .

In 1994 he succeeded Prof. Heinz Häfner at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim. In his role as director of the institute, he has further developed and expanded the institute's health care and research activities. The previously more epidemiological research focus was replaced by neurobiological and imaging research approaches. Under his leadership, the first chair for addiction research in Germany and gerontopsychiatry as a research department were established at the Clinic for Dependent Behavior and Addiction Medicine. In 1998 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Until 2006 he was the spokesman for the Dementia Competence Network funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . After his retirement he returned to the USA and became co-director at Brookhaven National Laboratory , where he is responsible for the life sciences.

honors and awards

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (2008)

Web links

• The Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim has a new boss
• Prof. Dr. med. Fritz A. Henn: Back to the USA after twelve years
• BIOPRO - The German Dementia Competence Network at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim ( Memento from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Fritz A. Henn at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 18, 2016.