Prof. Dr. med. Georg Romer Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy Schmeddingstr. 50 Building A9 D - 48149 Münster Phone: +49 (0)251 / 83-56250 Fax: +49 (0)251 / 83-56249 Email: g.romer(at)ukmuenster.de

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Research Areas

• Mental health problems in early childhood
• Eating disorders
• Psychotherapy and evaluation research
• Mental health risks and resiliency in family environments
• Children of somatically ill parents
• Mental health problems in refugee minors
• Gender dysphoria and transgenderism in minors
• Health services research

Selected Publications

 Wessing, I., Romer, G., & Junghöfer, M. (2017). Hypervigilance-avoidance in children with anxiety disorders: Magnetoencephalographic evidence. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 58(1), 103-112.


Gumz, A., Weigel, A., Daubmann, A., Wegscheider, K., Romer, G., & Löwe, B. (2017). Efficacy of a prevention program for eating disorders in schools: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. BMC psychiatry, 17(1), 293.


Lotzin, A., Schiborr, J., Barkmann, C., Romer, G., & Ramsauer, B. (2016). Maternal emotional dysregulation is related to heightened mother-infant synchrony of facial affect. Development & Psychopathology, 28(2), 327-339.


Lotzin, A., Romer, G., Schiborr, J., Noga, B., Schulte-Markwort, M., & Ramsauer, B. (2015). Gaze synchrony between mothers with mood disorders and their infants maternal emotion dysregulation matters. Plos One, 10(12): e0144417.


Wessing, I., Rehbein, M. A., Romer, G., Achtergarde, S., Dobel, C., Zwitserlood, P., . . . Junghöfer, M. (2015). Cognitive emotion regulation in children: Reappraisal of emotional faces modulates neural source activity in a frontoparietal network. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 1-10.

 

Academic CV

since 2013	Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at Univerity Hospital Muenster
2012	Appointed Professor (APL) at the University of Hamburg
2008 - 2010	Provisional Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf
2007	Habilitation at the University of Hamburg with the topic "Kinder körperlich kranker Eltern: Studien zum Bedarf seelischer Gesundheitsvorsorge sowie zur Entwicklung, Implementierung und Evaluation innovativer psychosozialer Interventionen bei einer kinder- und jugendpsychiatrischen Risikogruppe" Venia legendi in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2003	Medical Specialist in Childs and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2002 - 2005	Coordinator oft he transnational EU-funded multisite project in health services research "Children of Somatically III Parents (COSIP)"
1996 - 1999	Additional qualification in Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy at the University of Göttingen
1993	Medical dissertation at the University of Basle (Switzerland), Title of thesis: "Zur Prävention von psychischen und psychosomatischen Störungen am Beispiel von Ernährungsschwierigkeiten im Säuglingsalter"
1992	National Board Examination in Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg