Siegfried Kasper

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Siegfried Kasper (born December 15, 1950 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian professor of psychiatry at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Medical University of Vienna .

Life

Kasper studied at the universities of Innsbruck, Freiburg and Heidelberg. After completing his specialist training and psychotherapy training at the University Hospital Mannheim , the University of Heidelberg and the Training Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, he completed a two-year research stay at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda (USA) and then worked as a senior physician at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Bonn. In 1993 he was appointed full professor for psychiatry at the University of Vienna.

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Kasper carried out clinical studies in the fields of psychobiology , psychopharmacology and psychiatry and has published scientific papers that are reflected in a citation index of over 10,000 and an h index of 54. He published several standard works on the subject of depression .

Kasper belongs or was on the board of several professional societies, including the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), the Austrian Society for Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (ÖGPB), the Austrian Society for Drug Safety in Psychiatry ( ÖAMSP) and the Austrian Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ÖGPP). For the period 2012 to 2016 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). He is also Chair of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Section of Pharmacopsychiatry. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , an honorary member of the Czech, Romanian and Colombian Societies for Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry as well as the Ukrainian and Hungarian Societies for Psychiatry and a corresponding member of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology , the German Society for Biological Psychiatry and the Scandinavian College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology. Kasper was President of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry from 2005 to 2009.

Kasper is editor of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry , the International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice , Field Editor for International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology , Section Editor for Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, and Editor for Psychiatry of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry . He is on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals such as B. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , CNS Spectrums , Journal of Affective Disorders , Pharmacopsychiatry and European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience .

Public controversy

David Healy, director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, accused Siegfried Kasper in 2002 of having given his name to a pharmaceutical study that he had nothing to do with and that put a drug in a particularly good light. The then medical dean Wolfgang Schütz then passed the documents on to the rector, as he was responsible for disciplinary matters. Kasper himself spoke of a "huge misunderstanding". This has been criticized by the prestigious British Medical Journal as a typical case of ghostwriting and an unacceptable relationship between industry and academic psychiatrists. The controversy found its way into the book Hooked - Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry .

Awards

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 19th edition (2003). Volume 2 (K-Scho), KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 1555.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Makers 'ghost' drugs reviews. on: telegraph.co.uk , October 15, 2004.
  2. ↑ It said the drug was the best thing since sliced ​​bread. I don't think it is. on: guardian.co.uk , February 7, 2002.
  3. ↑ Roland Schönbauer: University psychiatrist suspected of being a "ghostwriter". on: derstandard.at , May 10, 2002.
  4. ↑ Roland Schönbauer: "Ghostwriter not common". on: derstandard.at , May 14, 2002.
  5. ↑ Hans Weiss : Corrupt Medicine. Doctors as accomplices of the corporations. 2nd Edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04037-1 , p. 172.
  6. ↑ Ghostwriting. In: Howard Brody: Hooked. Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md. Et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7425-5218-0 , p. 130. Restricted preview in Google Book Search
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  8. ↑ a b c d Curriculum vitae Siegfried Kasper website of the Meduni Vienna, accessed on February 15, 2018
  9. ^ Winner of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class Website of the Meduni Vienna, accessed on February 15, 2018
  10. ↑ Prices of the City of Vienna 2019. In: PID Press and Information Service of the City of Vienna. August 12, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kasper, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg