Prof. Dr. med. Michael Kaess

Clinical Director / Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Phone
+41 58 630 85 52
E-Mail
michael.kaess@upd.ch
Postal Address
Bolligenstrasse 111, Stöckli, 3000 Bern 60
Since 2017

Full Professor and Director of the University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland

Since 2015 Head of the Section “Translational Psychobiology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
2013 - 2017 Consultant at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
2011 – 2015

Deputy Head of the Section “Disturbances of Personality Development”, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

2011 – 2013 Senior registrar and research fellow at Orygen Youth Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
2007 – 2011 Registrar at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
   

Qualifications

 
5/2017

Trainer for Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in Adolescents (DBT-A)

01/2015 Habilitation in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany
10/2013 Specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy (focus on behavioural therapy)
03/2011 Therapist for Dialectic Behavioral Therapy in Adolescents (DBT-A)
07/2008

Doctorate in Human Medicine at the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany

06/2007 Medical license
   

Awards and Honors

 
03/2015 Hermann-Emminghaus-Prize
11/2014 Award of the Foundation for Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
10/2014 Young Researcher Award of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD)
04/2013 Travel scholarship to the Congress of the European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA), Nice, France
03/2013

Poster Award at the congress of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (DGKJP), Rostock, Germany

Error: HTTP Error 410: Gone