LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University; WHO Collaborating Centre on Quality Assurance and Empowerment in Mental Health DEU-131, Germany
Scopus Author ID: 12766622100Profersor of Psychiatry, Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, and Head of the LVR Klinikum Duesseldorf.
Professor Gäebel qualified in medicine at the Free University of Berlin (FUB), Germany, then took up postgraduate training in Neurology at Rudolf-Virchow-Hospital in Berlin and Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at the FUB. After specializing in Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology he continued working as Research Assistant, then Senior Psychiatrist at the Department of Psychiatry at the FUB, at the same time becoming appointed as State Physician for Mentally Handicapped Persons at the Senator for Health and Social Affairs in Berlin. In 1989 he obtained a grant of the German Research Foundation for a Research Stay at the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. In 1992 he took up his present position. During his career, Professor Gaebel has held positions as President of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nervous Diseases (DGPPN, 1995/6), and President of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry (DGBP, 1999/02). He was Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 11th World Congress of Psychiatry, Hamburg, 1999. He is Vice President of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF), member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA, member of several National Ethical Committees, chairman of the Section on Schizophrenia as well as co-chairman of the Section on Quality Assurance and honorary member of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), and chairman of the Taskforce on Nosology and Psychopathology of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP), with effect of December 2009 Chair of the Aktionskreis Psychiatrie e.V. Since 2010 he is Member of the Expert Platform on Depression, Lundbeck International Neuroscience Foundation.
Prof. Gäebel was again elected as President of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nervous Diseases (DGPPN) for the period 2007 – 2008. He was elected as a Board Member of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) with effect of 01 January 2009 and he was elected as co-chairman of the EPA Section on Schizophrenia.
His research focus includes clinical, pharmacological, and neurophysiological aspects of schizophrenia, experimental psychopathology, treatment guidelines and quality management, and research on stigma and discrimination. He is Speaker of several research networks, e.g. the German Research Network on Schizophrenia (GRNS), funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. In 2007 on behalf of the GRNS Professor Gaebel initiated the 1st European Conference on Schizophrenia Research in Duesseldorf, co-sponsored by AEP and WPA. In 2009 the 2nd European Conference on Schizophrenia Research took place in Berlin.
His current interest is on the development of diagnosis and classification towards ICD-11 and DSM-5; he is member of the Global Scientific Partnership Network appointed by WHO and member of WHO International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders. He is chair of the WHO-Workgroup on Psychosis for ICD-11. Since 2008 he is member of the DSM-5 Psychotic Disorders Workgroup of the American Psychiatric Association.
Professor Gäebel has published about 600 scientific articles and is editor or author of about 40 books/supplements on a range of topics.
