Tobias Esch

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Tobias Esch (born July 20, 1970 in Bremen ) is a German doctor and health scientist . Since February 2016, he has been Professor of Integrative Health Care / Health Promotion and Vice Dean for Organizational Development at the University of Witten / Herdecke . He has been an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School since July 2014 .

Life

Esch studied human medicine in Göttingen, Penang (Malaysia) and Aarau (Switzerland), as well as general studies at the University of Göttingen, where he also did his doctorate on a cellular stress model in experimental health research. Esch worked as a doctor, specialist in general medicine, post-doctoral student and scientist at the Universities of Witten / Herdecke, Duisburg-Essen, Harvard University / Harvard Medical School , at the Charité Berlin and at the University of Coburg . He practices in the field of general and integrative medicine. In 2013/2014 he did research as a Harkness Fellow at Harvard Medical School. From 2001 to 2015 he was also an associate scientist in the field of neuroscience at the State University of New York , and since September 2013 he has been visiting professor at Harvard Medical School.

Esch is a lifetime member of the Harvard Postgraduate Association, a member a. a. of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, he is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Mind-Body Medicine in Potsdam and on the Board of Directors of the Long Island Conservatory, Vice Chair and Board of Directors International Young Scientist Competition (New York) as well as in various other specialist and foundation advisory boards. He is also co-editor of several international trade journals.

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Tobias Esch is particularly active in the areas of health promotion and prevention . His research fields include neurobiological reward processes in the context of stress , illness and health, including the physiology of the relaxation reaction and parts of so-called " happiness research " (research on auto-regulation in the context of happiness and life satisfaction ). In addition, he develops prevention and stress management concepts and advises people and institutions on health management . His different approaches include: a. based on the idea of self-regulation . He has received numerous awards for his work. At Harvard Medical School , Esch worked on concepts for integrating and activating patients in the course of treatment (primary care), for example through transparent doctor-patient relationships (see Open Notes). Esch developed the German meditation app 7Mind together with Paul J. Kohtes , Jonas Leve and Manuel Ronnefeldt .

Fonts (selection)

  • The neurobiology of happiness. How positive psychology changes medicine. 3. Edition. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, 2017. ISBN 978-3132413917 .
  • Coping with stress with the help of mind-body medicine. Training manual for integrative health promotion. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3941468948 .
  • Together with Sonja Maren Esch: Coping with stress - mind-body medicine, mindfulness, self-care. Medical Scientific Publishing Company, 2nd edition, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-95466-230-2 .
  • The self-healing code. The neurobiology of health and contentment. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim 2017. ISBN 978-3-407-86443-7 .
  • Tobias Esch, Roanne Mejilla, Melissa Anselmo, Beatrice Podtschaske, Tom Delbanco: Engaging patients through open notes: an evaluation using mixed methods . In: BMJ Open . tape 6 , no. 1 , January 1, 2016, ISSN  2044-6055 , p. e010034 , doi : 10.1136 / bmjopen-2015-010034 , PMID 26826154 ( bmj.com [accessed November 28, 2017]).
  • Together with Eckart von Hirschhausen : The better half. What we can look forward to in the middle of life Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-498-03043-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tobias Detlev Esch, MD ( Memento from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Harvard Catalyst Profiles, accessed on September 26, 2014.
  2. ^ Uni Witten / Herdecke: Contacts . October 6, 2017 ( uni-wh.de [accessed November 28, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Tobias Esch's Xing profile
  4. ↑ Project Open Notes ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.myopennotes.org
  5. ↑ Reference publication Open Notes
  6. ↑ Jonas Leve, Manuel Ronnefeldt: From Zero to Omm. 2nd Edition. mvg, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7474-0001-2 , p. 10.
  7. ^ Susanne Billig: The topography of happiness . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . February 17, 2012 ( dradio.de [accessed November 28, 2017] review).
  8. ↑ Beltz publishing group: Tobias Esch on the "self-healing code". In: YouTube. January 4, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Esch, Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esch, Tobias Detlev (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and health scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen