Nadja Klafke

Biography

Nadja Klafke, born in 1983, has been working as a research assistant since Dec. 2013 in the department of general medicine and care research at the Heidelberg University Hospital. There, she co-ordinates mainly the CONGO (Complementary Nursing in Gynecologic Oncology) study, a multicentric intervention study, which investigates whether the quality of life of cancer patients improves through the regular use of complementary medical care measures. From 2010 to 2013, Mrs. Klafke completed a PhD at the School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, Australia. There she obtained the Ph.D (Doctor of Philosophy) Ph.D. (Ph.D.) with the dissertation topic "Interpersonal factors impacting the decision to (continue to) use Complementary and alternative medicine in men with cancer - a mixed-method study." She studied sociology, psychology and anthropology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, with an international stay at the University of Sheffield, UK, and completed this with the academic degree Magistra Artium (MA). Her master's thesis investigated the topic "An ethnomedical examination on the physician-patient relationship - Western medicine and Tibetan medicine in comparison". Mrs. Klafke also gained work experience in Toronto, Canada, as well as through journalistic activities in the area of ​​men and women's health.  

Research Interest

Cancer reserach and General Medicine