Achievements

I am collaborating with Iris Steine, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bergen, as well has her mentors and colleagues, on studies on the clinical features and neurobiology of sexual trauma and its complications, including PTSD

Studying the phenomenology and genetics of ketamine psychosis in relation to schizophrenia

Consulting regarding novel treatments for schizophrenia and ketamine-related psychosis.

Neuroimaging studies of brain structure and function associated with psychosis

Consulting to a study conducted evaluating the antidepressant effects of ketamine, led by Dr. Tung-Ping (Tom) Su.

The Department of Psychiatry at Cherite Hospital in Berlin has long been a home to ethical and compassionate treatment of patients. However, in the period leading up to World War II, its psychiatry leadership involved the hospital in the emerging eugenics movement. This work, contributed to the emergence of the Nazi T4 Program, which introduced forced sterilization and then "euthanasia" for individuals with chronic mental illness. I serve on the External Advisory Board to a historical program, commissioned by Dr. Andreas Heinz, chair of Psychiatry at Cherite, to review the hospital clinical records and to document the participation of this hospital in these atrocities.