PD Dr. med. Philipp Ritter

Research focus

Bipolar and depressive disorders
Circadian mechanisms in major mental disorders (phase shift, melatonin suppression, actimetry)
Sleep architecture and sleep spindles in major mental disorders
Inflammatory mechanisms in affective disorders
Efficacy and toxicity of novel antidepressants

Curriculum Vitae

	Ritter, Philipp, MD, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist
Official position	Consultant, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Psychiatric Hospital and Outpatient Clinics
Institution	University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus,Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany transCampus® Technische Universität Dresden – King’s College London
Business address	Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

1996-2001	University College London Medical School (MBBS)
2012	PhD in Medicine (TUD)
2020	Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in Psychiatry (TUD)

Professional career

2001-2002	House Officer, Gastroenterology and General Surgery, Royal Devon, Exeter and Royal United Hospital, Bath (UK)
2002-2003	Senior House Officer, Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital (Australia)
2003-2005	Senior House Officer in Neurology, Hamburg
2005-2008	Senior House Officer in Psychiatry, Hamburg
2008-2014	Senior House Officer and Junior Researcher in Psychiatry, TUD
2014-present	Study Coordinator, German Network for the Study of Bipolar Disorder (BipoLife); www.bipolife.org
2016-present	Consultant Psychiatrist, head of affective disorders unit
2020-present	“Managerial” Consultant

Honors, awards and positions

1998	Suckling Memorial Prize in Neuroscience, London
2001	Philip Seth Belasco and Douglas Cree Prize in Medicine, London
2018	Member, National S3 Treatment Guidelines for Bipolar Disorders (Chapters: Pharmacotherapy in pregnancy and lactation, comorbidity and treatment resistance);
2018	Member, Task Force “Chronobiology in Bipolar Disorders”, International Society for Bipolar Disorder (ISBD)
2019	Member, International Group for the Study of Lithium-Treated Patients (IGSLI)
2020	Member, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Bipolar Disorders Network

Current journal editorial positions

2018	Editorial Board, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 51, Scopus h-index: 16)

Vares E, Lehmann S, Sauer C, Pariante C, Wieland F ... Ritter P. Association of pro-inflammatory cytokines with clinical features in euthymic patients with Bipolar-I-Disorder. J. Affective Disorders. 2020.

Findeis H, Sauer C, Cleare A, Bauer M, Ritter P. Urothelial toxicity of esketamine in the treatment of depression. Psychopharmacology. 2020;1-8.

Ritter P, Wieland F, Skene D, Pfennig A, Weiss M et al. Melatonin suppression by Melanopsin-weighted Light in Patients with Bipolar-I-Disorder compared to Healthy Controls. J. Psychiatr Neuroscience. 2019;44.

Ritter P, Schwabedal J, Brandt M et al. Sleep spindles in bipolar disorder – a comparison to healthy control subjects. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2018;138.

Ritter P, Brandt M, Schrempf W, Brezan F, Krupka A et al. Role of the IL-6-Receptor expression in CD14+ monocytes in modulating sleep in patients with bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord. 2018;239.

Ritter P, Bermpohl F, Gruber O, Hautzinger M, Jansen A et al. Aims and structure of the German Research Consortium BipoLife for the study of bipolar disorder. Int J Bipolar Disord. 2016;4.

Pfennig A*, Ritter P*, Höfler M, Lieb R, Bauer M et al. Symptom characteristics of depressive episodes prior to the onset of mania or hypomania. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2016;133. *shared first authorship

Ritter P, Höfler M, Wittchen H-U, Lieb R, Bauer M et al. Disturbed sleep as risk factor for the subsequent onset of bipolar disorder – Data from a 10-year prospective-longitudinal study among adolescents and young adults. J Psychiatr Res. 2015;68.

Ritter P, Marx C, Lewtschenko N, Pfeiffer S, Leopold K et al. The characteristics of sleep in patients with manifest bipolar disorder, subjects at high risk of developing the disease and healthy controls. J Neural Transm. 2012;119.

Ritter P, Marx C, Bauer M, Lepold K, Pfennig A, Leopold K. The role of disturbed sleep in the early recognition of bipolar disorder: a systematic review. Bipolar Disord. 2011;13.