Thomas Schläpfer
Thomas Eduard Schläpfer (born January 22, 1959 in Bern ) is a Swiss psychiatrist . He was Deputy Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Bonn and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University . He is currently head of the Department of Interventional Biological Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Freiburg University Medical Center.
Life
Schläpfer studied medicine at the University of Bern . After completing his specialist training at Inselspital in Bern, he was the chief doctor of the psychiatric polyclinic. In 1992 he moved to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore as a Fellow to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 1997. In 2003 he was appointed as a university professor at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since 2006 he has been Vice Dean for Studies and Teaching at the medical faculty there.
Schläpfer is divorced and has three sons.
research
Schläpfer works in the field of translational research into affective disorders . Particular areas of interest are transcranial magnetic stimulation , deep brain stimulation and ethical aspects of interventional procedures in psychiatry.
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Individual evidence
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- ↑ Thomas Schläpfer: “Must be a zero tolerance offense” , General-Anzeiger , March 18, 2010, accessed on August 15, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schläpfer, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schläpfer, Thomas Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |