Prof. Dr. med. Jochen Schmitt
Research focus
- Evidence-based healthcare measurement in medicine
 - systematic reviews, (living) guidelines, outcomes research, quality indicators, secondary data analysis, data linkage, patient-reported outcomes
 - Health economic research
 - Evidence-based clinical decision making
 - Health services research, comorbidity research
 - Digital health, Mixed methods research
 - Value-based healthcare
 
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Curriculum Vitae
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 Schmitt, Jochen, MPH, Prof. Dr. med.  | 
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 Official position  | 
 Director, Center for Evidence-based Healthcare  | 
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 Institution  | 
 Professor of Social Medicine and Health Services Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden,  | 
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 Business address  | 
 Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany  | 
Academic education and degrees
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 1995-2002  | 
 Medical School in Würzburg, Hamburg, Leipzig  | 
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 2002  | 
 Approbation as Medical Doctor  | 
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 2002  | 
 Promotion (Dr. med.), magna cum laude  | 
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 2002-2011  | 
 Intern, Resident, Attending physician at the Dpt of Dermatology, University Hospital Dresden, Germany  | 
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 2005  | 
 Master of Public Health (MPH) an Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA  | 
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 2007  | 
 Board certification for Dermatology and Venerology  | 
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 2009  | 
 Board certification for Allergology  | 
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 2009  | 
 Habilitation. Thesis: „Epidemiology, medical care, and health-economic relevance of atopic eczema. A secondary data analysis”  | 
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 2009  | 
 Venia legendi Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden  | 
Professional career
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 2002-2003  | 
 Intern at the Department of Dermatology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden  | 
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 2003-2004  | 
 Intern at the Coordination Center for Clinical Trials, TU Dresden  | 
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 2005-2011  | 
 Research scientist and physician at the Department of Dermatology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden  | 
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 2006-2011  | 
 Head of section: Health Services Research and Epidemiology  | 
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 2009-2011  | 
 Head of section (attending) allergology & occupational dermatology at the Dpt. of Dermatology, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden  | 
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 Since 2011  | 
 Professor for social medicine and health services research at the institute and clinic for occupational and social medicine, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus at the Technical University Dresden.  | 
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 Since 2012  | 
 Director of Center for Evidence-based Healthcare (Zentrum für evidenzbasierte Gesundheitsversorgung-ZEGV), Technical University Dresden, Germany  | 
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 2014-2020  | 
 Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, School of Medicine, U.K.  | 
Honors, awards and positions
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 2018  | 
 Poster Award in the session Sarcoma/Pancreatic Carcinoma at the Annual Meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss Societies for Hematology and Medical Oncology in Vienna Topic: Krankheitslast und Versorgungssituation bei Sarkomen: Eine nationale Studie zu Einflussfaktoren patientenberichteter Krankheitsfolgen bei Menschen mit Sarkomerkrankungen – Studiendesign und erste Ergebnisse  | 
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 2018  | 
 Advancement Award for pain research 2018, 1st prize "Clinical Research Topic: Developing a Core Outcome-domain Set to assessing Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Multimodal Pain Therapy - The VAPAIN consensus statement on core outcome-domains Pain  | 
10 most important peer-reviewed papers
(10 out of 772, SCOPUS h-index: 63)
Baum F, Schoffer O, Neumann A, Seifert M, Kliemt R … Schmitt J. Effectiveness of Global Treatment Budgets for Patients With Mental Disorders-Claims Data Based Meta-Analysis of 13 Controlled Studies From Germany. Front Psychiatry. 2020;11:131.
Schmitt J, Lange T, Kottner J, Prinsen CAC, Weberschock T et. al. Cochrane Reviews and Dermatological Trials Outcome Concordance: Why Core Outcome Sets Could Make Trial Results More Usable. Cochrane Skin Core Outcome Set Initiative. J Invest Dermatol. 2019;139(5):1045-1053.
Neumann A, Swart E, Häckl D, Kliemt R, March S … Schmitt J. The influence of cross-sectoral treatment models on patients with mental disorders in Germany: study protocol of a nationwide long-term evaluation study (EVA64). BMC Psychiatry. 2018;18(1):139.
Williamson PR, Altman DG, Bagley H, Barnes KL, Blazeby JM … Schmitt J et al. The COMET Handbook: version 1.0., Young B. Trials. 2017;18(3):280.
Schmitt J, Apfelbacher C, Heinrich J, Weidinger S, Romanos M. Z Kinder [Association of atopic eczema and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies]. Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 2013;41(1):35-42;quiz42-4.
Romanos M, Gerlach M, Warnke A, Schmitt J. Association of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and atopic eczema modified by sleep disturbance in a large population-based sample. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010;64(3):269-73.
Schmitt J, Apfelbacher C, Chen CM, Romanos M, Sausenthaler S et. al. Infant-onset eczema in relation to mental health problems at age 10 years: results from a prospective birth cohort study (German Infant Nutrition Intervention plus). German Infant Nutrition Intervention plus Study Group. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010;125(2):404-10.
Schmitt J, Romanos M, Pfennig A, Leopold K, Meurer M. Br J Psychiatric comorbidity in adult eczema. Dermatol. 2009;161(4):878-83.
Schmitt J, Romanos M, Schmitt NM, Meurer M, Kirch W. Atopic eczema and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a population-based sample of children and adolescents. JAMA. 2009;301(7):724-6.
Schmitt J, Ford D. Understanding the relationship between objective disease severity, psoriatic symptoms, illness-related stress, health-related quality of life and depressive symptoms in patients with psoriasis - A structional equations modeling approach. Gen Hosp Psych. 2007;29(2):134-140.