Thomas Eduard Schlaepfer
Psychiatry
University of Bonn
Germany
Biography
Schläpfer studied medicine at the University of Bern. After residency training at the University Hospital in Bern, he was there head physician of the psychiatric outpatient clinic. Schläpfer is in the area of translational research on mood disorders active. Particular areas of interest are Transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and ethical aspects of interventional procedures in psychiatry. In 1992 he moved as a Fellow to the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to the Department of Psychiatryand Behavioral Sciences, where he was appointed Associate Professor 1997th In 2003 he became a university professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn appointed. Since 2006 he has been Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the local medical school.
Research Interest
Psychiatry