Portrait Christoph Müller-Pfeiffer

Christoph Müller-Pfeiffer
PD Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

Specialties

  • Diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic disorders
  • Insurance medical assessment for post-traumatic disorders
  • Biological research on post-traumatic disorders using psychophysiological and imaging methods

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 52 80

Other competencies

  • Methodological research on insurance medicine

Career

Since 2015 Senior Attending Physician, Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, USZ
2015 Habilitation
2014 Certified medical assessor SIM
2013-2014 Attending Physician, Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, USZ
2011-2013 Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
2010 Certified EMDR therapist
2006 Specialist FMH Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2004-2007 Resident, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, USZ
2002 Promotion
2001 Volunteering as a doctor in Afghanistan, Médecins Sans Frontières
1989-1996 Medical studies, University of Zurich

Memberships

  • International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
  • European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
  • International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSTD)
  • European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD)
  • German-speaking Society for Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)
  • Swiss Society for Biological Psychiatry (SSBP)
  • Swiss Society for Insurance Psychiatry
  • Swiss Insurance Medicine
  • Swiss Medical Association (FMH)

Research focus

  • Neurobiological processes of attention and memory disorders in post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Methodology in insurance medicine

Publications

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