Prof. Dr. Friederike Kendel

Deputy Director GiM

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Augustenburger Platz 1
13353 Berlin

Campus / internal address:
Reinickendorfer Str. 61, 13347 Berlin

Expertise

Head of the research area Psycho-Oncology and Health-Related Quality of Life.

Psycho-Oncology and Psychocardiology
Risk perception and decision making
Coping with illness
Health-related quality of life

Additional information

Five selected current Publications

Kendel, F., Klein, K., Schüürhuis, S., Besch, L., Feufel, M. A., & Speiser, D. (2022). What Causes Cancer in Women with a gBRCA Pathogenic Variant? Counselees’ Causal Attributions and Associations with Perceived Control. Genes, 13(8), 1399.

Otto, I., Hilger, C., Magheli, A., Stadler, G., & Kendel, F. (2022). Illness representations, coping and anxiety among men with localized prostate cancer over an 18‐months period: A parallel vs. level‐contrast mediation approach. Psycho‐Oncology, 31(2), 227-237.

Hilger, C., Schostak, M., Otto, I., & Kendel, F. (2021). Time pressure predicts decisional regret in men with localized prostate cancer: data from a longitudinal multicenter study. World Journal of Urology, 1-7.

Speiser, D., Rebitschek, F. G., Feufel, M. A., Brand, H., Besch, L., & Kendel, F. (2019). Accuracy in risk understanding among BRCA1/2-mutation carriers. Patient education and counseling, 102(10), 1925-1931.

Brand A, Gao L, Hamann A, Crayen C, Brand H, Squier SM, Stangl K, Kendel F, Stangl V. (2019) Medical graphic narratives to improve patient comprehension and periprocedural anxiety before coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention: a randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine. [Epub ahead of print ]:. DOI: 10.7326/M18-2976

Vita Prof. Dr. Friederike Kendel

Since 2019	Research associate and deputy director of the Institute for Gender Research in Medicine.
2013	Habilitation, Venia legendi for the subject medical psychology
2008	Visiting scientist at the "Preventive Medicine Research Institute", Sausalito, USA
2007	Doctorate (Dr. rer. medic.) at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
2004 - 2019	Research associate at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin
2003	Lecturer at the Institute for Medical Psychology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin
2003	Diploma in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
1998 - 2003	Psychology studies at the Freie Universität Berlin
befor that	first studies in violoncello, Slavic studies and musicology at the universities/ conservatories of Freiburg im Breisgau, Cologne and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow

Awards/Scholarships:

2018: Henry Walton Award for the article "Training medical students how to extract, assess and communicate evidence from an article"

2010: Peter Jacobi Award of the German Society for Medical Psychology

2006: Award for the best presentation in the field of clinical research (3rd Congress of the Berlin Institute for Gender Research in Medicine (GiM)

Scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V. and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Functions / offices

Deputy Director of the Institute for Gender Research in Medicine
Head of the AG Psychooncology and Health-Related Quality of Life
Member of the junior researcher commission of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Member of the Teaching Commission of the German Society for Medical Psychology
Member, Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (BSIO)

Links

Brand A, Gao L, Hamann A, Crayen C, Brand H, Squier SM, Stangl K, Kendel F, Stangl V. (2019) Medical graphic narratives to improve patient comprehension and periprocedural anxiety lieber Felix, before coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention: a randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine. [Epub ahead of print ]:. doi: 10.7326/M18-2976 (IF=19.384).

Feufel M, Keller N, Kendel F, Spieß C, Gigerenzer G (2017). Training on how to extract, assess and communicate evidence from an article. Medical Education. DOI: 10.1111/medu.13444.