Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Seidler

Research Focus

Social and Occupational Medicine
Public Health
Preventive Health Services Research
Health promotion
Children's cognitive and emotional-social development

Curriculum Vitae

	Seidler, Andreas, MD, MPH, Professor of Occupational & Social Medicine and Public Health
Official position	Director, Institute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine (IPAS), Faculty of Medicine
Institution	TU Dresden, Germany
Business address	Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden

Academic education and degrees

1995	Medical thesis in the field of history of medicine
1996	Master of Public Health (MPH), Hannover Medical School
2004	Board certification in Occupational Medicine
2005	Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Venia legendi) in the field of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology & Public Health

Professional career

1992-1995	Residency and researcher, Hannover Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine
1996-1998	Head of research group on occupational epidemiology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Occupational Medicine
1999-2005	Residency, Goethe University Frankfurt, Ruhr University Bochum and Hessischer Landesgewerbearzt, Wiesbaden
2005	Medical specialist, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin
2005-2006	Head of the Cancer Registry Rineland-Palatinate, University Medical Center Mainz, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics
2006-2010	Coordinator and head of research group on work and health, BAuA, Berlin
Since 2010	Professor for Occupational and Social Medicine & Public Health and Director of the Institute and Policlinic of Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden

Honors, awards and positions

2006-2016	Chair Divison Occupational Epidemiology of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi), German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP), German Society for Occupational and Environmental Medicine (DGAUM) & German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)
Since 2010	Dean of Studies of the Master program Public Health, Technische Universität Dresden
Since 2010	Director of the Committee of Occupational Medicine of the Medical Chamber of Saxony
Since 2013	Scientific director of courses in occupational and industrial medicine in the Academy for Medical Advanced Training of the Medical Chamber of Saxony
2019	Julius Springer Award for Occupational Medicine 2019
Since 2019	Member of the Experts´ Advisory Committee on Occupational Diseases (ÄSVB) of the Federal Ministry of Occupation and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Since 2019	President of the German Society of Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP)

Current journal editorial positons

Since 2013	Section Editor Occupational Medicine, Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie, Springer Nature; https://www.springer.com/journal/40664/editors
Since 2017	Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Review Board; https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/about-ehp/editorial-boards/review
Since 2017	Editorial Board Member des Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH); https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/about-ehp/editorial-boards/review

10 most important peer-reviewed papers

(10 out of 188, SCOPUS h-index: 32)

Seidler A, Hegewald J, Seidler AL, Schubert M, Zeeb H. Is the Whole More Than the Sum of Its Parts? Health Effects of Different Types of Traffic Noise Combined. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2019;16.

Hegewald J, Wegewitz UE, Euler U, van Dijk JL, Adams J … Seidler A. Interventions to support return to work for people with coronary heart disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2019;3:CD010748.

Seidler A, Lüben L, Hegewald J, Bolm-Audorff U, Bergmann A et al. Dose-response relationship between cumulative physical workload and osteoarthritis of the hip - a meta-analysis applying an external reference population for exposure assignment. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2018.

Seidler A, Hegewald J, Seidler AL, Schubert M, Wagner M et al. Association between aircraft, road and railway traffic noise and depression in a large case-control study based on secondary data. Environ Res 2017;152:263-71.

Seidler A, Wagner M, Schubert M, Dröge P, Pons-Kühnemann J et al. Myocardial Infarction Risk Due to Aircraft, Road, and Rail Traffic Noise. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2016;113:407-14.

Seidler A, Thinschmidt M, Deckert S, Then F, Hegewald J et al. The role of psychosocial working conditions on burnout and its core component emotional exhaustion – a systematic review. J Occup Med Toxicol 2014;9:10.

Ijaz S, Verbeek J, Seidler A, Lindbohm ML, Ojajarvi A et al. Night-shift work and breast cancer – a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scand J Work Environ Health 2013, 39: 431-447.

Backé EM, Seidler A, Latza U, Rossnagel K, Schumann B. The role of psychosocial stress at work for the development of cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2012; 85:67-79.

Hug K, Grize L, Seidler A, Kaatsch P, Schüz J. Parental occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields and childhood cancer: a German case-control study. Am J Epidemiol 2010;171:27-35.

Seidler A, Hellenbrand W, Robra BP, Vieregge P, Nischan P et al. Possible environmental, occupational and other etiologic factors for Parkinson's disease: A case-control study in Germany. Neurology 1996;46:1275-1284.