Jörg Fegert

Jörg Michael Fegert (born 15 November 1956, Heilbronn) is a German child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist and university professor.

In 1997 Jörg M. Fegert moved to Rostock University and became head of the department for child and adolescent neuropsychiatry and psychotherapy at the medical faculty.

In 1998, Fegert became managing director of the Center for Mental Health Neurology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Rostock and remained there until 2001.

Since the introduction of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, he has advocated, for example, a stronger consideration of the traumatic background of children in institutions in youth welfare in an expert opinion on the 13th Report on Children and Adolescents of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in Germany.

Since then, he has been in charge of the accompanying research for the helpline of the current Independent Commissioner for Sexual Child Abuse Issues (UBSKM) J. W. Rörig.

[3] Fegert founded the first open-access online journal in child and adolescent mental health with support by a grant from the German research fund.