[FG] Meinlschmidt Gunther

Research Focus

Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health & Health Systems

Area of Research

Key Research Perspectives include i) new digital technologies, machine/deep learning, artificial intelligence, and clinical decision support tools, ii) psychotherapy and other interventions, iii) bodily processes, and iv) consultation-liaison and health services.

Key Research Topics include i) functional symptoms/syndromes and pain, ii) mental-somatic multimorbidities, iii) psychooncology

Approved Research Projects

• Towards a deep learning-informed translational network approach to address mental-non-mental multimorbidity (Forschungsfonds der Universität Basel)
• Prevention of psychosocial stress consequences in somatic medicine: a pilot project on collaborative care (SomPsyNet) (PGV01.087) (funded within the framework of the "Prevention in health care" programme by "Health Promotion Switzerland")    
• Efficacy of a Modular Intervention to promote Dignity and Mental Well-Being by a Palliative Consultation-Liaison Service in Swiss Acute Hospital Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung & Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung)
• A clinical trial of group-based body psychotherapy to improve bodily disturbances in posttreatment cancer patients, in combination with randomized controlled smartphone-triggered bodily interventions (Krebsliga Schweiz)
• A Personalized Approach to Foster Dignity by a Palliative Consultation Service in Swiss Acute Hospital Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung & Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung)

Collaborations

National Collaborations

- Faculty of Psychology University of Bern

- Faculty of Psychology University of Basel

International Collaborations

- Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea (대한민국)

- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

- RWTH Aachen, Germany

- Université de Strasbourg, France

- Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

- various Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Ongoing Research Projects

• Using deep learning to inform clinical decisions in the context of stress-related disorders, somatic symptoms, and mental-somatic multimorbidity.
• Prävention psychosozialer Belastungsfolgen in der Somatik: ein Modellprojekt zur kollaborativen Versorgung (SomPsyNet) (PGV01.087) (Förderung im Rahmen des Programms “Prävention in der Gesundheitsversorgung” durch “Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz”).
• Efficacy of a Modular Intervention to promote Dignity and Mental Well-Being by a Palliative Consultation-Liaison Service in Swiss Acute Hospital Care: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung & Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung).
• A clinical trial of group-based body psychotherapy to improve bodily disturbances in posttreatment cancer patients, in combination with randomized controlled smartphone-triggered bodily interventions (Krebsliga Schweiz) Medical students learn with and from people with mental disabilities: a comparison of the teaching formats improvisation theatre workshop and movie discussion.