apl. Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Nikendei, MME
Permanent deputy of the Medical Director
(Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Chief Senior Physician
(Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics)
Head of Division
(Section Psychotraumatology)
Head of the Institute
(Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy (HIP))
Research Group Leader
(Psychotherapy research)
Attending Physician
(Mitscherlich Ward)
Deputy Attending Physician
(Private Section Bergheim)
Member
(Ethics Council of the Psychosocial Center)
Arbeitsgruppenleiter psychodynamische Psychotherapieforschung
(Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy (HIP))
Studienleiterin
(EMDR Behandlung für Patient*innen mit komplexer posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung)
Focus
Posttraumatic stress disorders, secondary traumatization, care for mentally burdened refugees and asylum seekers, autobiographical memory in psychosomatic disorders, medical didactics, communicative and procedural skills in medical students, psychotherapy research, competence-based training of psychotherapists in education, stress and burnout at work, acquisition of health competence.
Medical/Professional background
- 19. July 2016
Appointment as associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics
- since 2016
Senior Consultant; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
- since 2016
Head of Psychotraumatology Section; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
- 2014 – 2016
Provisional Senior Physician; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
- 2010 – 2014
Senior Physician; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
- 2003 – 2010
Assistant physician; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
- 2001 – 2002
Internship; Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Medical studies in Tübingen
Scientific background
- 2013
Habilitation, Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
- 2009
Master of Medical Education Deutschland (MME-D)
- 2001
Dissertation at the Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Tübingen
Commendations
- 2016
Ars legendi award for excellent teaching in university medicine
- 2014
Senior-Fellowship of the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft for innovations in university teaching
- 2011
RIME AWARD „Beginners and Students in Difficult Situations"
- 2011
RIME AWARD„Teaching and Assessment“
- 2010
Poster Award "Innovative Teaching Projects / Reform Approaches in Medical Education"
- 2008
Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator Award der Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
- 2007
Special prize within the scope of the Quality Promotion Prize Health Baden-Württemberg
- 2006
GMA Prize for Young Teachers of the Society for Medical Education
- 2004
Oskar Kuhn Prize of the Bleib Gesund Foundation
- 2003
Teaching Award of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg
SPECIALIST ACCREDITATIONS
Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy
Internal Medicine
Additional title doctor for acupuncture
FURTHER EDUCATION
Baden-Wuerttemberg certificate for university didactics
Management Seminar for Senior Physicians and Senior Executives of the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University
Continuing Education Psychosocial Oncology (WPO)
RESPONSIBILITIES
Head of Skills Lab Training at the Medical University Hospital
Head of the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Skills Lab Curriculum of the Heidelberg Medical Faculty
PY Coordinator of the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Head of the Psychotherapy Research Outpatient Clinic of the Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg
Responsibility HeiTiMed (Heidelberg tutorials for international medical students)
Responsibility Stress Prevention Program for First Semester Medical Students (PräBooster)
LECTURING ACTIVITIES
Society for Medical Education (GMA)
Competence Center Examinations Baden-Württemberg (KomP)
MME-Germany Program of Studies (MME-D)
Educational and consulting center of the municipal hospital Karlsruhe
AG Teaching of the German College for Psychosomatic Medicine (DKPM)
Institute for Didactics and Research in Medicine (idfm e.V.)
Qualification Program Clinical Research HD-MÜ HH TÜ
Competence Network Education Baden-Württemberg
Heidelberg Institute for Depth Psychology (HIT)
Heidelberg Institute for Psychotherapy (HIP)
FundED PROJECTS
- since 2019
"APRIKO - Workplace-based and PRofessIon-spanning Communication Trainings"; funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
- since 2018
"Design, implementation and evaluation of a longitudinal curriculum for the teaching and practical testing of psychodynamic intervention skills in the training of psychological psychotherapy"; funded by the Köhler Foundation
- since 2018
"Investigating the interaction of emotional reactivity and neural reward processing in patients with complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2018 – 2020
"Longitudinal Skills-Lab-Curriculum"; special line teaching of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
- 2018 – 2020
"Heidelberg Standard Examination / Heidelberg Standard Procedures / Heidelberg Standard Procedures - Advanced"; Special Line Teaching of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
- 2018 – 2020
"HeiTiMed - Heidelberg Tutorial for International Medical Students"; special teaching line of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art
- 2018 – 2020
"Stress prevention seminars for medical students"; special line teaching of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
- since March 2017
"Healthy ageing in the nursing profession - development and evaluation of an intervention module to promote successful ageing in the nursing profession"; funded by the BMBF
- November 2016 – February 2019
"Psychotherapeutic Evening Clinic: New form of care for depressive patients (P-AK)"; sponsored by the Innovation Committee at the Federal Joint Committee (GBA) for grants from the Innovation Fund
- September 2016 – August 2019
"Development and implementation of care concepts for traumatized refugees and incriminated helpers"; funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
- June 2016 – December 2017
"Attachment related autobiographical memory in depression and changes during course of psychotherapeutic treatment"; Small Grant of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR);
- January 2016 – August 2018
"Changes in Disorder-related Autobiographical Memory during Weight Restoration in Anorexia Nervosa Patients"; funded by the Swiss Anorexia Foundation
- January 2015 – December 2016
"Stress Prevention Program for Medical Students in the Practical Year - a Study in Control Group Design"; Senior Fellowship Support Program for Innovations in University Teaching of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, the Joachim Herz Foundation, the Donors' Association of German Science and the Caspar Ludwig Opländer Foundation
- 2013 – 2015
"Competence Center for the Prevention of Mental and Psychosomatic Disorders in the World of Work and Education (PPAA)" ; Subproject: "Predictors of Psychosocial Stress in Medical Students"; funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg