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