Stefan Kaiser MD

Stefan Kaiser became an affiliated member of Synapsy in March 2018, one year after taking up the position of head of the HUG’s Adult Psychiatry Division and following his appointment as a full professor in the Psychiatry Department in UNIGE’s Faculty of Medicine. Synapsy’s annual meeting in Villars 2019 was the ideal opportunity to learn more about this German-born psychiatrist.

Stefan Kaiser studied medicine in Heidelberg, where he obtained his medical degree before specializing in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He then joined the Zurich Psychiatric University Hospital, dividing his time between clinical work and translational research on severe mental disorders for almost eight years. As head of the division of adult psychiatry at HUG, Stefan Kaiser is responsible for a large clinical division that includes general outpatient and inpatient psychiatry for patients between 18 and 65 years of age. He also holds a university post that he devotes to teaching and research on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.