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Leitende Neuropsychologin (Chief Neuropsychologist)
University of Bonn Medical Center, Dept. of Neurodegenerative Diseases & Geriatric Psychiatry
Bonn, Germany
Catherine Nichols Widmann’s research is aimed at understanding of neuropsychological health at the nexus of psychology, neurology, psychiatry, internal medicine and intensive care. She cares deeply about making neurocognitive aftereffects of a range of diseases visible to the medical community. She has long experience in diagnostics and research of several diseases and conditions, including sepsis, cardiac surgery, neurodegenerative, and most recently, Covid-19.
Catherine is a US-American transplant to Germany. Having grown up in the Bay Area of California, she received a B.A. from UC Berkeley in both Political Science and History. While at UC Berkeley, she began to learn German. After her degree, she moved to Germany received her Diplom in Psychology (equivalent to a Master’s Degree) at the Free University of Berlin. She completed her Doctoral Thesis in Psychology at the University of Bonn on the topic of effects of chronic and acute inflammatory states on long-term cognition in heart-surgery patients.
During her career, Catherine has worked in several institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, the Charité Hospital in Berlin at the Benjamin Franklin Campus’s Memory Clinic, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Clinical Research Platform in Bonn and the University of Bonn Medical Center in the Department of Neurology. She has been directing Neuropsychologist since 2019 in the University of Bonn Medical Center in the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry and continues to be affiliated with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
