Timo Siepmann, MD

Education

2002-2008 Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Thesis

2008
"The effects of venlafaxine on autonomic and cognitive functions", thesis with distinction, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Technical University Dresden, Germany

Academic Appointments

2010-2011
Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2011-present
Instructor in clinical pharmacology, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Technical University Dresden, Germany

Clinical Appointments

2009 and 2011
Resident, Department of Neurology, MediClin Klinikum Plau am See, Rostock Medical Faculty, University of Rostock , Germany

2012-present
Resident, Department of Neurology, Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Technical University Dresden, Germany

Scientific and Administrative Leadership Positions

2009-2011
Director, Laboratory for Autonomic Functions and Biofeedback, Department of Neurology, MediClin Klinikum Plau am See, Rostock Medical Faculty, University of Rostock , Germany

2009-present
Course director, Academia neurologica, Medical Council Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

2012-present
Site director, Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, Department of Continuing Education, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Honors and Awards

2009 Carl Gustav Carus Award for Outstanding Dissertation
2010 American Autonomic Society Fellowship Award
2010-2011 Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Foundation
2011 Rudolph Buchheim Award, German Society of Clinical Pharmacology
2011 American Academy of Neurology International Scholarship Award
2011 International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience Travel Award
2012 American Academy of Neurology International Scholarship Award

Review and advisory panels

2012
Abstract reviewer, AAN-autonomic disorders section, 64th American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting

2012-present
Editor, Journal of Contemporary Medical Education

2012-present
Editor, American Journal of Pharmacological Sciences

2012-present
Manuscript reviewer for:
- Nutrition and Dietary Supplements,
- Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease
- Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical
- Journal of Public Health
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Memberships in professional societies

2009-present
Hartmann Bund (German Medical Society)
2010-present:
German Society of Clinical Pharmacology
2012-present:
Harvard University Alumni Club of Berlin

Community services

2006-present
Chairman, Doctors for Humanity, Berlin, Germany
2006-present
Project leader, Actions – No Words Charité Project, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Selected publications

1. Siepmann T, Ziemssen T, Mueck-Weymann M, Kirch W, Siepmann M. The effects of venlafaxine on autonomic functions in healthy volunteers. J Clin Psychopharm 2007; 27:687-691

2. Siepmann T, Mück-Weymann M, Oertel, R, Pittrow D, Kirch W, Siepmann M. The effects of venlafaxine on cognitive functions and quantitative EEG in healthy volunteers. Pharmacopsychiatry 2008;41:146-50

3. Lindauer A, Siepmann T, Oertel R, Jung A, Ziemssen T, Jaehde U, Kirch W, Siepmann M. Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling of venlafaxine: pupillary light reflex as test system for noradrenergic effects. Clin Pharmacokinet 2008;47:721-31

4. Siepmann T, Roofeh J, Kiefer FW, Edelson DG. Hypogonadism and Erectile Dysfunction Associated With Soy Product Consumption. Nutrition 2011;27:859-62

5. Siepmann T, Gibbons C, Lafo J, Brown C, Freeman R. Quantitative Pilomotor Axon-Reflex Test - A Novel Test of Pilomotor Function. Arch Neurol. 2012 Aug 6:1-5

6. Siepmann T, Multiple sclerosis and peripheral neuropathy. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2012 Sep;137:1878-79

7. Siepmann T, Tesch M, Krause F, Illigens BM, Stoltenburg-Didinger G. Polymyositis with cytochrome C oxidase negative fibers - a pathological and clinical challenge. Ann Diagn Pathol 2012; doi.org/10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2012.10.004

Textbooks

1.Kirch W, Siepmann T, Kullak-Ublick GA (Editors). Arzneimitteltherapie (Drug therapy). Thieme, Stuttgart, 2011