Prof. Dr Nicolas Rüsch, MSt

Senior Physician

Head of the Public Mental Health Section

Postal address:
Section Public Mental Health
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II
of the University of Ulm
Parkstraße 11
89073 Ulm

Phone: 0731 500-62300
Fax: 0731 500-62302

E-mail: nicolas.ruesch@uni-ulm.de

Nicolas Rüsch is Professor of Public Mental Health and Senior Physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II at the University of Ulm's Günzburg District Hospital.

Research interests
  • Stigma of mental illness
  • Attitudes towards treatment and utilisation of psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care
  • Development and evaluation of anti-stigma interventions
  • Self-concept and disclosure of mental illness
  • Mental illness and work (unemployment)
Most important international co-operation partners
  • Prof Patrick W. Corrigan, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
  • Prof Sir Graham Thornicroft, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
  • Dr Sara Evans-Lacko, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
  • Dr Roland Zahn, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
Teaching
  • since 2001 Teaching psychiatry to medical students
  • since 2003 Co-supervision of medical doctoral theses
  • 2007 - 2009 Co-supervision of psychological doctoral theses, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
  • since 2011 Teaching psychology students in social psychiatry
  • since 2016 Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II at the University of Ulm

 

1990 - 1994Studied Classics and History in Munich, Tübingen and Oxford; Master of Studies at the University of Oxford, UK
1994 - 2000Studied human medicine, mainly in Freiburg im Breisgau
2000State examination and doctorate
2001 - 2005Assistant doctor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau (Prof. M. Berger)
2005 - 2006Assistant doctor at the IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia neurological clinic, Rome (Prof. C. Caltagirone)
2007Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
2007 - 2009Marie Curie Fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (Prof. P.W. Corrigan) and 2009 - 2010 at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Freiburg
2009Habilitation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
2010 - 2013Head of the outpatient clinic at the Crisis Intervention Centre of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich (Prof. W. Rössler)
since 2013Professor of Public Mental Health and Senior Physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II of the University of Ulm at Günzburg District Hospital (Prof Thomas Becker)

 

  • 2019 Klaus Koeppen Prize for Social Innovation from the Gips Schüle Foundation
  • 2018 Research Prize of the German Society for Social Psychiatry (DGSP)
  • 2017 Anti-Stigma Prize of the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN)
  • 2013 Winner of the Prix Perspectives, Switzerland
  • 2007 Hamburg Prize of the Society for Research and Therapy of Personality Disorders e. V. (GEPS)
  • 2007 Young Investigator Award of the National Educational Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD), New York
Editor
  • since 2020: Editor of the journal "Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology"
Editorial Board
  • since 2016 Stigma and Health
  • 2017 to 2019 Psychiatry Research
  • since 2020: Co-Chair World Psychiatric Association, Section Stigma and Mental Illness
Publications
Books
The stigma of mental illness
The Stigma of Mental Illness
Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Rehabilitation