Official position
Director, Institute and Policlinic of
Occupational and Social Medicine (IPAS), Faculty of Medicine
Institution
TU Dresden, Germany
Business address
Fetscherstraße 74
01307 Dresden
Academic education and degrees
1995 | Medical thesis in the
field of history of medicine |
1996 | Master of Public
Health (MPH), Hannover Medical School |
2004 | Board certification
in Occupational Medicine |
2005 | Postdoctoral lecture
qualification (Venia legendi) in the field of Occupational Medicine,
Epidemiology & Public Health |
Professional career
1992 - 1995 | Residency and
researcher, Hannover Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Social
Medicine |
1996 - 1998 | Head of research
group on occupational epidemiology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of
Occupational Medicine |
1999 - 2005 | Residency, Goethe University Frankfurt, Ruhr
University Bochum and Hessischer Landesgewerbearzt, Wiesbaden |
| 2005 | Medical specialist, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin |
| 2005 - 2006 | Head of the Cancer
Registry Rineland-Palatinate, University Medical Center Mainz, Institute of
Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics |
| 2006 - 2010 | Coordinator and head
of research group on work and health, BAuA, Berlin |
Since 2010 | Professor for
Occupational and Social Medicine & Public Health and Director of the Institute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden |
Honors, awards and positions
2006 - 2016 | Chair Divison
Occupational Epidemiology of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi),
German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (DGAUM) & German Association for
Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) |
Since 2010 | Dean of Studies of the
Master program Public Health, Technische Universität Dresden |
Since 2010 | Director of the Committee of Occupational
Medicine of the Medical Chamber of Saxony |
Since 2013 | Scientific director of courses in occupational
and industrial medicine in the Academy for Medical Advanced Training of the
Medical Chamber of Saxony |
2019 | Julius
Springer Award for Occupational Medicine 2019 |
Since 2019 | Member of the Experts´ Advisory Committee on
Occupational Diseases (ÄSVB) of the Federal Ministry of Occupation and Social
Affairs (BMAS) |
Since 2019 | President of the German Society of Social
Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP) |
Current Journal Editorial positions
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 188, Scopus h-index: 32)
Seidler
A, Hegewald J, Seidler AL, Schubert M, Zeeb H. Is
the Whole More Than the Sum of Its Parts? Health Effects of Different Types of
Traffic Noise Combined. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019;16
Hegewald J, Wegewitz UE, Euler U, van Dijk JL, Adams J … Seidler A. Interventions to support return to work for people with coronary heart disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2019;3:CD010748
Seidler
A,
Lüben L, Hegewald J, Bolm-Audorff U, Bergmann A et al. Dose-response
relationship between cumulative physical workload and osteoarthritis of the hip
- a meta-analysis applying an external reference population for exposure
assignment. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2018
Seidler
A,
Hegewald J, Seidler AL, Schubert M, Wagner M et al. Association
between aircraft, road and railway traffic noise and depression in a large
case-control study based on secondary data. Environ Res 2017;152:263-71
Seidler
A,
Wagner M, Schubert M, Dröge P, Pons-Kühnemann J et al. Myocardial
Infarction Risk Due to Aircraft, Road, and Rail Traffic Noise. Dtsch Arztebl
Int 2016;113:407-14
Seidler
A,
Thinschmidt M, Deckert S, Then F, Hegewald J et al. The
role of psychosocial working conditions on burnout and its core component emotional
exhaustion – a systematic review. J Occup Med Toxicol 2014;9:10
Ijaz S, Verbeek J, Seidler A, Lindbohm ML, Ojajarvi A et al. Night-shift work and breast cancer – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scand J Work Environ Health 2013, 39: 431-447
Backé EM, Seidler A, Latza U, Rossnagel K, Schumann B. The role of psychosocial stress at work for the development of cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2012; 85:67-79
Hug K, Grize L, Seidler A, Kaatsch P, Schüz J. Parental occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields and childhood cancer: a German case-control study. Am J Epidemiol 2010;171:27-35
Seidler
A, Hellenbrand W, Robra BP, Vieregge P, Nischan P
et al. Possible environmental, occupational and other etiologic factors for
Parkinson's disease: A case-control study in Germany. Neurology
1996;46:1275-1284
