Speaker
Professor Kerstin Jessica von Plessen
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Lausanne and head of division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Lausanne
Biography
Kerstin Jessica von Plessen is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Lausanne and head of division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Lausanne, the CHUV. Her research covers the range of psychopathology and that relate to the development of mental health of children and young people with a strong interest for public health questions. During her career she has always had a clinical focus on young people with eating disorders.
Plessen completed her postgraduate training in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University of Bergen, in Norway, where she also completed a PhD on the brain development of children with Tourette syndrome, in close collaboration with Columbia University in New York. She was Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen from 2011 to 2017 where she established a group of researchers whose work focused on developmental pathways in children and adolescent with neuropsychiatric disorders and those at risk for mental health problems. In December 2017 she moved to the University of Lausanne to take on the clinical and research lead of the division and to reorganize the services to achieve a coverage of the public health sector for the young people of the region.