Tillmann H.c. Kruger MD, FECSM

Tillmann Krueger, MD, FECSM, is a Medical Doctor and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) where he received his M.D. degree in 1999. He works as a consultant and is Head of the Section of Clinical Psychology and Sexual Medicine as well as Deputy Head of the Department of Psychiatry. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist as well as a neurologist. Training locations include the Hannover Medical School, the University Clinics of Essen, both in Germany, and the University Hospital and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

He has published numerous papers on the neurobiology of human and deviant sexual behavior and related neurobehavioral topics and has continuously been supported by national and international grants. Tillmann Krueger coordinates a research consortium dedicated to the basic and clinical understanding of child sexual abuse and pedophilia (NeMUP) which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). In 2018 he was elected as an ordinary member of the Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover. At MHH he is the medical head of two clinical prevention programs against child sexual offending (“Don’t offend”) and sexual violence towards women (“I CAN CHANGE”).

Apart from this, his clinical and scientific expertise includes clinical neuroscience of affective and personality disorders. The main topics are the modulation and treatment of mood states and affective/personality disorders by novel neuropsychiatric interventions such as treatment with botulinum toxin. Tillmann Krueger has been a Fellow of the European Committee of Sexual Medicine (FECSM) since 2012 and EFS-ESSM certified Psycho-Sexologist (ECPS) (European Federation of Sexology, European Society of Sexual Medicine) since 2018.

He has a special authorization for consultation hours in sexual medicine and sex therapy by the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Lower Saxony, Germany since 2012. In his consultation hours, he meets people with all kinds of sexual disorders and problems with a special emphasis on the interface of psychiatry, neurology, and sexual medicine. Special expertise covers the diagnosis and treatment of paraphilias (e.g. pedophilia), hypersexuality, sexual violence, Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD), and psychopharmacology.