Hanfried Helmchen
Hanfried Helmchen (born June 12, 1933 ) is a German university professor ; from 1971 to 1999 he was professor of psychiatry at the Free University of Berlin ; since 1999 Professor Emeritus .
Life
Hanfried Helmchen studied medicine in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1950 to 1955 and received his doctorate in 1956 with a dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. In 1965 he came to the FU Psychiatric Clinic as a senior physician, where he completed his habilitation in 1967 . From 1971 he was director of the psychiatric clinic at the Free University of Berlin. Helmchen published in international journals, his areas of work included epilepsy , depression, therapy research, mental disorders in old age and dementia ; Helmchen took part in the Berlin age study . He was u. a. from 1973 to 1975 chairman of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology),
Helmchen was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1993 . He was a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and an advisor to the World Health Organization . From 1983 to 1994 he headed the ethics committee of the Virchowklinikum and the ethics committee of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and is a member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine .
Research and Teaching
Hanfried Helmchen researched depression , among other things , and dealt with the methodology of psychiatric therapy research and questions of medical ethics. In 2006, in collaboration with Hans Lauter , Siegried Kanowski and Eva-Maria Neumann, he published the standard work Ethics in geriatric medicine .
"The book shows possible solutions for specific ethical questions, such as dealing with dementia patients, euthanasia, living wills and research on the elderly."
Awards
- 1975: Ambassador for Epilepsy by the ILAE and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)
- 2015: Wilhelm Griesinger Medal of the DGPPN
Fonts
- with Norman Sartorius (Ed.): Ethics in Psychiatry: European Contributions. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht 2010, ISBN 978-90-481-8720-1 .
- with Fritz Henn, Hans Lauter and Norman Sartorius: Psychiatry of special life situations. (= Contemporary psychiatry. Volume 3). Springer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-540-65804-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanfried Helmchen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen: Hanfried Helmchen: role model as scientist and person. In: Dtsch Arztebl. 110 (23-24), 2013, pp. A-1203 / B-1049 / C-1043.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry by Hanfried Helmchen (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 21, 2016.
- ↑ Wilhelm Griesinger Medal of the DGPPN goes to Professor Hanfried Helmchen. (No longer available online.) In: dgppn.de. November 15, 2015, archived from the original on November 26, 2015 ; Retrieved November 25, 2015 . 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.
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| SURNAME | Helmchen, Hanfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychiatrist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1933 |