Dear colleagues,
with great pleasure we invite you to the international “Farewell” symposium of Prof. Dieter Riemann, which will take place on April,11, 2025. Dieter Riemann retired officially from his duties at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Freiburg University Medical Center on March, 31, after more than 30 years as a University Professor and Department Head of Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology.
Dieter Riemann joined the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry as a student researcher from 1979 till 1985. He developed a keen interest in biological psychiatry, psychotherapy and sleep research. After a one year research stipend he joined the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim as a scientific assistant, received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1988 and his habilitation in Clinical Psychology from the University of Heidelberg in 1992. On July 1, 1993 he joined the Department of Psychiatry at Freiburg University Medical Center with a tenured professorship. Clinically he worked as a psychological psychotherapist and a supervisor for psychotherapy, mainly focussing on patients with all kinds of sleep disorders. His scientific output includes more than 500 publications. His contributions led to the Pisa sleep award in 2021 and just recently he was nominated by Clarivate/ Web of Science as one of the most highly cited researchers in his field.
With his retirement he took over the function of a speaker of the Germans Sleep Society and still is editor in chief of the Journal of Sleep Research, one of the most important outlets for the publication of sleep research and sleep medicine.
We do wish him good health for the future and like to thank him for his work in Freiburg and what he achieved not only for himself but also for the Department. It was and is a real pleasure to work with him!
Katharina Domschke and Mathias Berger (Freiburg)
Dear friends and colleagues,
first of all let me thank Freiburg University Medical Center and Katharina Domschke and Mathias Berger for encouraging and supporting me to organise this event. It is really a major highlight for me to end my official time at Freiburg University with the possibility to invite close friends from my scientific community and former colleagues from Freiburg, to whom I am endlessly grateful for having had the chance to work with them over the last decades. A great thanks also goes to the sponsors.
Mathias Berger was my clinical and scientific mentor from 1979 till 2016 and I want to express my deep gratitude for all the opportunities he opened up for me and the lively atmosphere at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy he created. Where would I be without him? Katharina Domschke took over the Department at the end of 2016 and she provided a smooth transition which allowed me pursue my clinical and scientific interests at full speed – indeed I am extremely thankful for all the support she gave me!
I am looking forward to see many of you in person on April 11, 2025, but as seats are limited, we have made it possible to stream the event online. For this I am thanking the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) and the German Sleep Society (DGSM) who officially endorse this event.
Dieter Riemann (Freiburg)
Program
April 11, 2025: 1pm to 7pm at Freiburg University Medical Center (with online streaming)Session 1: Some personal remarks
C. Bassetti (Berne): Chair and introduction
13:00 –13:10 | M. Berger (Freiburg): How it all began….
13:10 – 13:20 | K. Domschke (Freiburg): How it flourished….
Session 2: Sleep, insomnia and mental illness
Chairs: Michael Perlis (Philadelphia) and Chiara Baglioni (Rome)
13:20 – 13:40 | M. Perlis (Philadelphia): From Dreaming and REM related mood regulation to Insomnia
13:40 – 14:00 | C. Baglioni (Rome): What meta-analysis can tell us about the relationships between insomnia and mental illness
14:00 – 14:20 | L. Palagini (Pisa): Insomnia - from psychology to neurobiology
14:40 – 15:00 | C. Nissen (Geneve): Become your own SLEEPexpert: a pragmatic behavioral treatment program for insomnia in patients with psychiatric disorders
15:00 – 15: 30 | Coffee Break
15:30 – 15:50 | C. Espie (Oxford): How to scale insomnia care?
15:50 – 16:10 | E. Hertenstein (Geneve): Developing new psychotherapies for insomnia
16:10 – 16:20 | Discussion
Session 3: Sleep health, sleep societies and clinical guidelines
Chair: C. Espie (Oxford)
16:20 - 16:35 | C. Bassetti (Berne): Burden of Sleep disorders and Sleep Health
16:35 – 16:50 | G. Mayer (Marburg): The German sleep society and its guidelines
16:50 – 17:20 | Coffee break
Session 4: Main research topics in Freiburg
Chair: C. Nissen (Geneve)
17:20 – 17:40 | K. Spiegelhalder (Freiburg): Facets of insomnia
17:40 – 18:00 | B. Feige (Freiburg): A fascination with REM sleep
18:10 – 18:15 | Discussion
Session 5: Logistic/ methodological aspects/ mentoring/ supervision
Chair: E. Hertenstein (Geneve)
18:15 – 18:25 | A.Johann & F. Benz (Freiburg): What makes a good mentor and boss?
18:25 – 18:35 | R. Dressle (Freiburg): Clinical and research supervision
18:35 – 18:45 | L. Frase (Freiburg): Neuropsychiatric sleep medicine
18:45 – 19:00 | Dieter Riemann (Freiburg): Final remarks
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Chiara Baglioni
University Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy
Prof. Dr. Claudio Bassetti
Dean of the Medical Faculty and former Director of the Neurological Hospital, Inselspital Berne and University of Berne, Switzerland
Dr. Fee Benz
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Mathias Berger
former Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Dr. (MA) Katharina Domschke
Medical Director, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Dr. Raphael Dressle
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Colin Espie
Professor of Sleep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Bernd Feige
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
PD Dr. Lukas Frase
Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg
PD Dr. Elisabeth Hertenstein
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Anna Johann
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Geert Mayer
former director of the Neurological Hospital Hephata and former president of DGSM, Marburg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Nissen
Chief, Psychiatric Services, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Laura Palagini
Department of Neurosciences, Psychiatric Section, University of Pisa, Italy
Prof. Dr. Michael Perlis
Director Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Psychiatry, Philadelphia, US
Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemann
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Spiegelhalder
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg
Converence Venue
Medical Center University of Freiburg
Lecture Hall - Department of Gynaecology
(Location Map - F3)
Hugstetter Str. 55, 79106 Freiburg
Tramlines 2 + 4 - Tram Stop "Robert-Koch-Strasse"
Travel
How to reach Freiburg (im Breisgau)
... by Airplane: Freiburg is located in the middle of a dense network of international airports. The nearest international airport, EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, is only 40 minutes away from Freiburg. Direct connection to Freiburg is provided by the Airport Bus or public transport with transfer in Basel. Frankfurt, one of Europe's largest hubs is only a two hour train ride or car drive away. Trains leave from the airport's long distance train station to Freiburg at least once every hour.
... by Car: Over the motorway A-5 Frankfurt-Karlsruhe-Basel
... by Train: Freiburg is located on the ICE/Intercity route Frankfurt-Karlsruhe-Freiburg-Basel. Twice an hour, trains from allover Germany or from Switzerland (Zurich/Basel) stop at Freiburg's main train station.
For using the public transport in Freiburg you can find information here.
Special Train Ticket (Deutsche Bahn)
You can use the special arrangement from Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) to travel from any German railway station to Freiburg.
The fare for your one-way ticket (limited availability) to the conference is max.:
One way – specific train
1st Class – 89,90 € (seat reservation incl.)
2nd Class – 55,90 €
One way – fully flexible
1st Class – 112,90 € (seat reservation incl.)
2nd Class – 77,90 €
Book your ticket here https://www.veranstaltungsticket-bahn.de
Sponsoring
We thank the sponsors for their kind support
GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH – 1000€*
Gegenleistungen des Sponsorings:
*4qm Infostand und die Nennung im Programm sowie auf der Webseite
**2qm Infostand und die Nennung im Programm sowie auf der Webseite
***Nennung im Programm sowie auf der Webseite
Scientific Committee
UNIVERSITÄTSKLINIKUM FREIBURG
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Zentrum für Psychische Erkrankungen (Department)
Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemann
Organisation
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
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