Official position
Executive Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Director and Physician-in-Chief, Psychiatric Hospital and Outpatient Clinics Spokesperson, Centre of Mental Health transCampus® Professor
Institution
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus,Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden,
Germany transCampus® Technische Universität Dresden – King's College London
Business address
Fetscherstraße 74
01307 Dresden
Academic education and degrees
1977 - 1982 | Diploma in Biology, University of Constance, Germany |
1987
| PhD in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
1983 - 1989 | MD in Medicine, School of Medicine, FU Berlin |
1990 - 1994 | Residency in Psychiatry & Neurology, FU Berlin |
2001 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychiatry, FU Berlin |
Professional career
1983 - 1987 | Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, FU Berlin |
1994 - 1998 | Associate Director, Berlin Lithium Clinic and Research Group of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry, FU Berlin |
1997 - 1998 | Assistant Clinical Professor, Supervising Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Benjamin Franklin Medical Center, FU Berlin |
1998 - 2002 | Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA |
2002 - 2006 | Deputy Department Head, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte (CCM) |
since 2007 | Director, Executive Chair and Physician-in-Chief, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden |
since 2019 | Transcampus Professor, King's College London, UK |
Honors, awards and positions
1999 - 2001 | National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award |
2000 - 2002 | Judson Braun Research Scholarship, University of California Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences |
Since 2002 | President,
International Group for the Study of Lithium-Treated Patients (IGSLI) |
2005 | National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Independent Investigator Award |
Since 2006 | Chairman, Task Force, Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders,
World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) |
Since 2007 | Project leader, National S3 Treatment Guidelines for
Bipolar Disorders |
2009 | The Mitchell Balter Award, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology |
Since 2013 | Honorary International Advisor for
Society for Advancement of Bipolar Affective Disorder in Hong Kong |
Since 2013 |
International Bipolar Foundation (IBPF), Scientific Advisory Board |
2014 - 2020 | Chair/Co-chair,
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Bipolar Disorders Network |
Since 2015 | Coordinator, National Research Consortium "BIPOLIFE: Improving Recognition and Care in Critical Areas of Bipolar Disorders" |
2016 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bipolare Störungen e.V. (DGBS e.V.) ARETÄUS Price for exeptional dedication in the field of bipolar disorder |
Since 2016 | Chair, Task Force "Role of Lithium in Bipolar Disorders", International Society for Bipolar Disorder (ISBD)/International Group for the Study of Lithium-Treated Patients (IGSLI)
International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) |
2017 | AGNP-Prize for Research in Psychopharmacology, Achievements in the Field of Treatment of Mood Disorders with Thyroid Hormones |
2017 | Anna-Monika-Prize, for research in neurobiology and treatment of depressive disorders by the Anna-Monika-Foundation |
Current Journal Editorial positions
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 472, Scopus h-index: 71)
Bauer M, Glenn T, Geddes J, Gitlin M, Grof P et al. Smartphones in mental health: a critical review of background issues, current status and future concerns. Int J Bipolar Disord. 2020;8:2
Bauer M, Monteith S, Geddes J, Gitlin MJ, Grof P et al. Automation to optimise physician treatment of individual patients: examples in psychiatry. Lancet Psychiatry. 2019;6(4):338-349
Bauer M, Andreassen OA, Geddes JR, Vedel Kessing L, Lewitzka U et al. Areas of uncertainties and unmet needs in bipolar disorders: clinical and research perspectives. Lancet Psychiatry. 2018;5(11):930-939
Bauer M, Glenn T, Alda M, Aleksandrovich MA, Andreassen OA et al. Solar insolation in springtime influences age of onset of bipolar I disorder. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2017;136(6):571-582
Bauer M, Berman S, Stamm T, Plotkin M, Adli M et al. Levothyroxine effects on depressive symptoms and limbic glucose metabolism in bipolar disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled positron emission tomography study. Mol Psychiatr. 2016;21(2):229-236
Bauer M, Pfennig A, Linden M, Smolka MN, Neu P, Adli M. Efficacy of an algorithm-guided treatment compared to treatment as usual: a randomized controlled study of inpatients with depression. J Clin Psychopharm. 2009;29(4):327-333
Bauer M, Silverman DHS, Schlagenhauf F, London ED, Geist CL et al. Brain glucose metabolism in hypothyroidism: a positron emission tomography study before and after thyroid hormone replacement therapy. J Clin Endocr Metab. 2009;94:2922-2929
Bauer M, Grof P, Gyulai L, Rasgon N, Glenn T, Whybrow PC. Using technology to improve longitudinal studies: self-reporting with ChronoRecord in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2004;6:67-74
Bauer M, Heinz A, Whybrow PC. Thyroid hormones, serotonin and mood: of synergy and significance in the adult brain. Mol Psychiatr. 2002;7:140-156
Bauer M, Bschor T, Kunz D, Berghöfer A, Ströhle S et al. Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the use of lithium to augment antidepressant medication in continuation treatment of unipolar major depression. Am J Psychiat. 2000;157:1429-1435
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