Since 04/2017, Frauke Schultze-Lutter works as a Senior Researcher at the LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf and Associate Professor at the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. She is head of the research unit “Early Detection” and of the early detection and intervention (EDI) services of the departments of both adult (PP) and child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy (CAPP). Before, she was Associate Professor at the University of Bern where, for the last 18 months, she was Acting Director of the Research Department of the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. During her work in Bern from 2009-2017, she also established and led the common early detection and intervention service of the University Psychiatric Hospital Bern (both PP and CAPP) and the Soteria Bern. Before, in 1998, she had initiated and, until 2009, lead Europe’s first EDI service (FETZ) at the PP of the University of Cologne, Germany.
Working in the field of EDI since 1994, she is an internationally recognized expert in this field and, for more than 10 years, is providing training and supervision in the assessment of clinical high risk of psychosis. Within the SPI study funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), she developed an early detection instrument for adults that, so far, is available in 8 languages (incl. Portuguese), and later on, for children and adolescents (currently available in 3 languages). Besides more than 100 original publications in high impact international journals, she is main author of the European Psychiatric Association’s (EPA) guidance on the early detection of psychosis and second author of the of the European Psychiatric Association’s (EPA) guidance on the early intervention in clinical high risk states of psychosis. She is also well experienced in epidemiological studies on clinical high risk in children, adolescents and adults and led two projects on these topics funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).
