Christoph Müller-Pfeiffer
PD Dr. med.

Senior 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

Departments

Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 52 80

Mail psy.info@usz.ch

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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