Curriculum Vitae Name: Martin Bohus, MD Birth

Curriculum Vitae
Name:
Martin Bohus, MD
Birth Information: November, 16, 1956, Erlangen, Germany
Office Address:
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Ruprecht-Karls-University
Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Square J 5,
D-68159 Mannheim, Germany
Phone: +49-621-1703 4001; Fax:+49-621-1703 4005
email: [email protected]
Education and Training:
1985 – 1988: Research scientist at the Department of Immunology, University of Freiburg
1988–1992: Clinician, Department of Psychiatry of the University of Freiburg
1992: Speciality in psychiatry and psychotherapy
1992- 2002: Senior physician, Department of Psychiatry of the University of Freiburg
1992–1996: Director of interdisciplinary priority program: Vulnerability Marker for Major
Depression
2000-present: Director of interdisciplinary priority program: Neurobiological Aspects of
Borderline Personality Disorder
2000–2003: Leading scientist of the Freiburg/Bale Center in the frame of the Borderline
Personality Disorder Research Foundation.
2001: Habilitation for psychiatry and psychotherapy
2001: Call for full professorship at the Central Institute of Mental Health, University of
Mannheim, Germany
2003-present: Associated professorship at the University of Arts at Karlsruhe, Germany
Current Position: Chair (C4) in Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of
Heidelberg , Director, Dept. of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of
Mental Health, Mannheim;
Research: Psychotherapy development and outcome research, psychopathology and
treatment of affective dysregulation, pain perception in borderline personality disorders,
emotional learning, dissociative features.
Awards: 2003: Established Investigator Award. Borderline Personality Disorder Research
Foundation, New York; 2003: Research Award International Society for the Investigation
and Teaching of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Boston; 2004: Psychotherapy Award of
the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology; 2005:Outstanding
Research Award International Society for the Investigation and Teaching of Dialectical
Behavioral Therapy, Washington; 2009: Hamburger Award for Personality Disorders
.
Research Projects: Speaker of the Clinical Research Group 256: Pathomechanisms of
Emotion Regualtion in Borderline Personality Disorder (DFG; 2012-2018); Learning and
brain plasticity in borderline personality disorder with and without comorbid posttraumatic
stress disorder. (DFG; 2003-present); Ambulatory Monitoring in Borderline Personality
Disorder (DFG 2002-2004); Evaluation of a stepped care treatment program for social phobia
(DFG 2004-2007); Epidemiological Investigations on Borderline Personality
Disorders.(BPDRF 2002-present); Neurobiology and Genetics of Affect Regulation (Ministry
of Baden Wuerttemberg 05-09); Cognitive and Emotional Mechanisms of Pain Regulation
(BMBF 2006-2008); Vulnerability markers for affective psychosis. (Ministry of Science and
Art, Baden-Württemberg 92-96); G-protein expression in bipolar disorders. (Sander
Foundation. 94-95); Studies on the effectiveness and mode of action of Dialectic Behavioral
Psychotherapy for borderline disorders in in-patients (DFG 97-00); Neurobiological aspects
of borderline personality disorders (Ministry of Science and Art, Baden-Württemberg 00-01);
Startle response in patients with borderline personality disorders (DFG 00-02).Basic clinical
research on borderline personality disorders (BPDRF, 2000-02), 6 industry – funded
psychopharmacological projects

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