Jörg Fegert

Prof. Dr. Jörg M. Fegert is Medical Director of the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Ulm University Medical Center, Past President and Congress President (Ulm 2017) of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (DGKJP) as well as President (2023-2027) of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP). From 2017 until 2022 he was Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board on Family Affairs of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth of which he is still a member as well as of the National Council against Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents. He is also board member of the Aktion Psychisch Kranke e.V. (APK), spokesman of the Trauma Research Centre at Ulm University (ZTF, grant-aided by the state of Baden-Württemberg) and member of the German Committee for UNICEF e.V. He is director of the Competence Center Child Abuse and Neglect (Com.Can) of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and of the Competence Area Mental Health Prevention at the Competence Network Preventive Medicine of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. Prof. Fegert's main areas of work include neglect, maltreatment, sexual abuse and other adverse childhood experiences as well as early intervention, the relationship between youth welfare and child and adolescent psychiatry and other legal and forensic issues. His department has a focus on e-learning and dissemination, especially in the field of child protection and trauma research.