Dr. Annabel Müller-Stierlin

Dr. Annabel Müller-Stierlin is a postdoctoral research fellow with a background in nutritional science and medical biometry working at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II (head: Prof. Dr. T. Becker). She completed her PhD thesis in the field of integrated care for people experiencing severe mental illness. Over the last six years at the University of Ulm, Annabel has become familiar with health care research, health economics and implementation research.

Her primary research interest is the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and process-outcome-evaluation of psychosocial interventions with a special focus on multi-professional teams and inter-professional collaboration. Since mental illnesses affect all areas of life, there is a need for health care services that comprise a wide range of professional disciplines. In order to provide care efficiently, it is not enough to bring together multi-professional teams, but inter-professional cooperation must be promoted through appropriate training and communication paths. Not only in mental health care, but also in research, a wide variety of disciplines must finally be united to answer important questions in psychiatry, such as antipsychotic-induced weight gain. Therefore geneticists and microbiologists should be involved in research teams besides medical doctors and health scientists.

By mediating between different professional groups, Annabel’s aim is to ensure inter-professional cooperation in care and research.